Catalogue description Hopkinson, Mr David and Mrs Diana

(daughter and son-ion-law of Eva Hubback). At Missenden House, Little Missenden, Amersham, Bucks. Eva Hubback's habits of work. Influence of Meredith. Her wide but indiscriminate reading. Her impact on the careers of her children. A link-woman. Impact of her Jewish background. How Diana came to write her mother's biography. Eva's domestic arrangements. Her practical outlook. Her attitude to social class. Her unpunctuality. Always busy, but without appearing to be so. Importance of a sense of proportion. Eva's attitude to Eleanor Rathbone and Elizabeth Macadam. Relationship with Mary Stocks. Ernest Simon. Her disappointments in later life. Her relationship with her husband. Her energy. Her domestic arrangements. Her interest in spiritualism in later life. Amber Blanco-White. Charles Graves. Her taste for ceremonial. Her health and appearance. (continued on tape 21).