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Excerpt from Mary Wakefield: A Memoir
In writing this account Of Mary Wakefield I have kept two main objects in view: first to leave, not only for her many friends, but for those to whom she can never be more than a name, some intimate recollection Of her work and personality; secondly to vindicate her claim to be regarded as the originator Of the Competition Festival movement. While writing the book, I have been increasingly impressed by the conviction that a life SO fully and intensely lived, and SO scantily recorded in journals and letters, could only have been satisfactorily dealt with in the form of an autobiography. Had Mary Wakefield been spared to us a few years longer it is possible that she would have left us this - in her case especially - best of all memorials. The vision Of what she, with her ardent sympathies and shrewd, humorous outlook on the world, could have made of such a book, forces me to realize the comparative lifelessness of my own inadequate substitute. That up to the time of her death she was too fully occupied to spare time for writing her reminiscences is a matter for endless regret. Failing her autobiography, I commend this brief Memoir to all who have enjoyed, or will enjoy, the fruits Of her labours.
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