L2.121 Lloyd, Frances Anne [late 1880s?]

L2.121 Lloyd, Frances Anne [late 1880s?]

Photographs and Portraits

1880s

Carte de visite. Head and shoulders portrait. Photographer: Hermann Witte, Vernex-Montreux. 4 x 2½ inches.

When Fanny and Lucy Lloyd moved out of Charlton House in June 1887, after their arrival in England they joined Jemima Bleek and her daughters either in Germany or in Switzerland. We know that when Kate Bright wrote to Jemima Bleek on Aug. 30, 1887 (Section V, Bright-Bleek Letters, Item #210. 8) that the sisters were together as she asks Bleek to give a letter she has enclosed "to Miss L.C. Lloyd." On Sept. 9, 1887 a letter was mailed from Oxford to Miss Lloyd c/o Mrs. Bleek, Clarens, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland" (Item #163 below). From the time that they moved to Europe Bleek and her daughters spent some six months based in Berlin, Germany and six months in Clarens, Switzerland. "The girls went to school in both countries, becoming fluent in French as well as German, while speaking English at home."