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Spring 1937; preparations are underway for the Coronation of George VI on 12 May, a date that had previously been intended for Edward VIII.
This ambitious scheme for a pageant, never staged, was written and illustrated by Gladys Joan Swift, a student at Ripon teacher training college for women.
The influence of Eva Lett, the college’s first female principal (from 1935 to 1946), might be seen in the climax to the procession when Sylvia Pankhurst takes her seat and ‘there is a flourish’.
This ambitious scheme for a pageant, never staged, was written and illustrated by Gladys Joan Swift, a student at Ripon teacher training college for women.
The influence of Eva Lett, the college’s first female principal (from 1935 to 1946), might be seen in the climax to the procession when Sylvia Pankhurst takes her seat and ‘there is a flourish’.
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