Photographs: PH1473

Title

Mary Anderson's cottage Broadway

Subject

Anderson, Mary

Dimensions

height: 15.5cm
width: 9cm

Inscription/signature

Printed on the front: "THE GREAT HALL, MARY ANDERSON'S COTTAGE, BROADWAY, WORCS"

Provenance

Donated to the Club in November 2022 by Mr Michael Gaunt

Other number

E0131

This photographic postcard depicts the inside of Mary Anderson's cottage in Broadway Worcester. In the late 1880's the Cotswold village of Broadway became a retreat for many artists and writers of that period. William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti regularly used The Tower as their retreat. It was particularly known for an Anglo-American colony of artists, made up of Francis D. Millett, Edwin Austin Abbey, then later John Singer Sargeant. Writer such as J.M.Barrie and Henry James also lived there. In 1890 when Mary Anderson married the American barrister, Antionio Fernando de Navarro, and they settled in Court Farm, in Broadway.