Gt. Aunt Florence looks like a lady with attitude
Attitude and mystery ...
The family story was that "we don't talk about her". She is supposed to have gone to London and there is a suggestion she may have been an actress.
The photograph confirms that she went to London, as it was taken at the studios of Henry Van der Weyde, 182 Regent Street. Curiously somebody at some point decided to try to scratch out the photographer's name and address on the mount - very odd. From the details of the photographer, we can date the photograph to between September 1877 and 1902. (Van der Weyde's studio was the first to be fitted with electric light for photography.)
She's on my dad's side, so probably originally from Lancashire, and likely a Stevenson or a Smith (but could be an in-law), but so far I've not been able to find an appropriate Florence.
