Lady Elaine Maynard Falkiner née Farmer (1871-1900). Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, Greater London. According to the British Listed Buildings site, this carrara marble “ near-life size, barefooted figure is dressed in a Grecian dress, with appropriately dressed hair. . . [It] is an unusually vivid portrait for a memorial sculpture, and it ably captures Lady Falkiner's elegance. A South African” by birth, Lady Falkiner died from illness contracted while running a military hospital during the Boer War. Listed for its sculptural quality and human interest.” [Click on images to enlarge them.]
Two photographs of the monument in its setting and a frontal view.
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Photographs by Robert Freidus. Formatting and caption by George P. Landow. [You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the Victorian Web and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite it in a print one.]
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