SIX ALS, 14 pages to to [English critic and writer Wilfrid Hugh] Chesson
Item #60751
Drummond was the first woman to serve as amarine engineer in the British navy during WWII. She was awarded the MBE and Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery after keeping her ship's engines running while under enemy fire. She faced immense prejudice and failed the Cief Enginsser's exam 37 times due to secist attitudes before obtaining her Panamanian certificate in 1962. She served on 49 ocean voyages. Wilfrid Hugh Chesson (1870–1952) was born in 1870 in Lambeth, the son of journalist Frederick W. Chesson. He worked as a journalist and reader for publisher T. Fisher Unwin. Chesson was the editor of the works of actor Chalres Keen. He wrote several novels, including the bildungsroman Name this Child (1894) and the supernatural tale A Great Lie (1897). In 1901 he married novelist Eleanor Jane Hopper ("Nora Hopper") (1871–1906). He died in 1853.
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