Lines 86-90:  Aunt Maud

 

Maud Shade, 1869-1950, Samuel Shade’s sister.  At her death, Hazel (born 1934) was not exactly a “babe” as implied in line 90.  I found her paintings unpleasant but interesting.  Aunt Maud was far from spinsterish, and the extravagant and sardonic turn of her mind must have shocked sometimes the genteel dames of New Wye.

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