HvS BIO | Outline and Links to Chapters

Here is a first draft of an outline of a biography of Hilda van Stockum. A significant beginning has already been made through the typing up of letters and their posting. The website www.hildavanstockum.com also has many useful links and posts. Ideas appreciated - teppermarlin@aol.com.

1. Olga Boissevain and Her Family - The Boissevains and the MacDonnells.

SEPARATE FILE NOW: 
http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2014/07/my-mother-olga-boissevain-by-hilda-van.html
http://www.boissevain.us/charlesboissevain.html

Charles and Emily Boissevain, My Mother’s Parents

Olga Boissevain, My Mother

2. Bram van Stockum and the van Stockums.

http://hildavanstockum.blogspot.com/2014/05/hilda-van-stockums-spiritual-journey.html

My Father’s Naval Career

World War I

My Father’s Teaching 

Blockade, 1916 

My Father in USA

Father Returns from USA

3. Hilda's Childhood - Java.

Mother Leaves for Switzerland 1912

The Great War

Mother's letters from Java.

4. Growing Up in Holland - Religion

Finding Religion in Hans Christian Andersen

Aunt Teau

5. Art School in Amsterdam.

Her Emergence as an Artist

6. Art School in Dublin.The van Stockum family went to Dublin when Hilda was 16, i.e., in 1924, because of the connection with the Jameson family. Billy Kirkwood, a famous polo player, was married to Harriet (Harrie) Jameson. They lived in Clontarf/Clondarf.

7. Marriage to Spike Marlin.

8. The 1930s.

1934 - Olga born and A Day on Skates appears

Brigid and Randal born

Irish books - May Massee her editor

9. World War II and Its Aftermath.

Sheila, John, Lis born

Kersti and St. Nicholas

Winged Watchman and Borrowed House

Willem's letters, death in France

Hilda van Stockum - www.hildavanstockum.com/‎ News, July 24, 2007: Book Featuring HvS's Brother

Willem Jacob van Stockum. David Toomey's book, New Time Travelers (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007), has ...

HvS from ERM 1943-46 - BOISSEVAIN NEWS USA
www.boissevain.us/hvserm1940s/hvsfromerm194346.html‎




DUBLIN. February 2, 1943. Dearest Hilda,. Your letter No. 15 arrived to my great ... Last night I had dinner with Harry and Billy [Kirkwood], Eric and Monica ..... Then Willem moved around the corner to the room with the lovely view over Clontarf.

10. The 1950s. Europe.

See www.boissevain.us

Ireland. Beulah

France

Ampleforth

Visit to Laval to Willem's gravesite

Olga joins Opus Dei

Montreal

Randal at Princeton

Brigid, Sheila,Lis in Hemel/Berko

Harvard

11. The 1960s.

See www.boissevain.us

12. The 1970s.

See www.boissevain.us

13. The 1980s.

See www.boissevain.us

14. The 1990s - Spike's death

See www.boissevain.us

15. Her Last Years and Death in 2006. Her funeral and Guest Book.

16. An Appreciation of Her Art.

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