Laurence Alma-Tadema

Laurence Alma-Tadema (born Laurense Tadema, 1865–1940), was an English novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked in many genres. Eldest daughter of the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) and his first wife Marie-Pauline Gressin Dumoulin, she was born in Brussels. Her stepmother, Lady Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852–1909) and sister Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) were also noted artists. Laurence Alma-Tadema lived in "The Fair Haven", Wittersham, Kent, and she involved herself with music and plays with the villagers and their children, going on to construct a building to seat a hundred people, used for musical concerts and plays, which she named "Hall of Happy Hours". She never married and died in a nursing home in London in 1940.