The outbreak of World War II necessitated the temporary evacuation of St. Mary's Convent, Hampstead, where she was teaching, to the East Sussex mansion of Lady Catherine Ashburnham.
The outbreak of World War II necessitated the evacuation of St. Mary's Convent, Hampstead, where she was teaching. Nuns and children set out together on a remarkable exodus which led them to the stately East Sussex mansion of Lady Catherine Ashburnham.