Background
She was born Marjorie Tulip Ritchie, in 1902 in Durban, Natal, South Africa.
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Trekkie Parsons
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Education
Trekkie studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
Career
She was the author and illustrator of Bells across the Sand - A Book of Rhymes with Pictures published by her husband"s firm in 1944(?) lithographed throughout, printed by Chiswick Press in the same style and size as Puffin Picture Books. Her lithographic technique is in the style of Barnett Freedman. Trekkie had an unconventional relationship with Leonard Woolf from 1941 until his death in 1969.
She had holidays and acted as hostess for them both separately.
She wrote many letters to Leonard when they were apart, published in 1974 as Love Letters: Leonard Woolf and Trekkie Ritchie Parsons. Her parents, Allan McGregor Ritchie (b 1870, Edinburgh) and Sarah Maria Tulip (b 1867, Stockton on Tees) married in Cumberland in 1894.
In 1917 her family came to England and Trekkie attended school at Tunbridge Wells, before entering, in 1920, the Slade School of Fine Art, to study with Philip Steer and Henry Tonks.
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July 24, 1995 (aged 93)