Martha Tirion at Maen y Bard, Anglesey, Wales c. 1925 or 26?
Sifting through family photo albums over the Christmas break I found this picture of Martha! Whilst SHE took lots of photographs of standing stones she rarely appears in them. She looks to be at Maen y Bard a chambered tomb on Anglesey. There is no date, but I suspect it may have been taken around the same time as the photo of Martha at Penrhos Feilw. She was a regular visitor to the megalithic monuments of Anglesey so, this could be a later picture.
This one captures some of her flamboyant personality. I can imagine her clambering up barefoot! The parasol is a nice touch. Around the time Death Practices was being published Martha was living between London and Cambridge. I think you can tell because in both photographs she is very chic.
I don't think I have said so far, but I am related to Martha, but I am descended from her brother, Albert, the only son and second eldest of the Tirion children. He is my great, great grandfather and died before I was born. Martha had no children. She also did not marry, though there were rumours of lovers. I have not found definitive evidence of this, but in my view it would be natural that a clever, erudite and beautiful young woman would have both romantic entanglements and in 1920s Britain be very circumspect and "proper" in her letters to those lovers. As such there are many letters I could interpret as an intimate (ie sexual) relationship with women and men, but frankly that might just be my 21st century prejudice reading too much into phrases describing deep, passionate friendships.