Lil Coolidge (1857-1906)

Of all the women I have learned about in my family it is my great grandmother Lil who intrigues me the most.  She certainly had an unusual life full of ups and downs and a disproportionate amount of curved balls. Nevertheless she seems to come through her experiences with a quiet dignity.

• Exodus from the New World to the Old (1857-1864)

• The wandering years (1864-1875)

• A most difficult year (1876)

• Staying in and ‘Coming Out’ (1877-1880)

• A doctor’s wife (1880-1897)

• Things are never so bad (1897-1906)

_{Image from An Eccentric in the Alps the story of the Rev. W.A.B Coolidge the great Victorian mountaineer by Ronald W CLARK | Published by Museum Press in 1959}