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the two of them were "on friendly terms", Mrs Thurston left for a holiday in India, hoping that it would give her husband time to "get over it". While there, she received news that Emily Cowlin was expecting a baby. The following summer Temple Thurston married Emily Cowlin at Kensington Register Office. It had been kept secret and only six people attended. Afterwards, the couple slipped away in a car before crowds had time to gather.
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In November 1924, Temple Thurston's second marriage ended. Joan Katherine (nÊe Cann), whom he had married a year after his first divorce, told the divorce court that they had lived happily together until 1922, when her husband had engaged a private secretary, Emily Cowlin. Objecting to the fact that
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until the ban was announced a couple of weeks before. Since the book itself had attracted little controversy, Temple Thurston suspected that the establishment had had some late thoughts about offending the French, who had executed the spy.
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For many years, Temple Thurston found it difficult to make a living from writing and worked as a yeast merchant, brewer, research chemist, and commercial traveller before finally becoming a reporter. His first novel,
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Thurston wrote a total of forty books, from which seventeen motion pictures were made. In addition, he authored several
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Digressions: being passages from the works of E. Temple Thurston, collected and arranged by Bellwattle
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and then, after the death of Georgina in 1895, left England to live with Thurston Snr's mother in
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and four of which were made into motion pictures. His best-known work for the stage is
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At the end of February 1933, Thurston was taken ill after a game of golf in
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was issued in a rewritten form in 1905, but it was not until the success of
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published by Newnes in 1909, that he found some kind of stability.
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Plays by Ernest Temple Thurston on Great War Theatre
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Temple Thurston 795:, Kemp, Mitchell, Trotter, OUP, 1997 775:(1928) (Scenario by Vivian Thompson) 204:in 1921. 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Halesworth
Suffolk
Maida Vale
Paddington
Katherine Cecil Thurston
poet
playwright
author
Halesworth
Suffolk
Maidstone
Ballintemple, Cork
Katherine Cecil Madden
Kensington
Ardmore
theatrical
Broadway
the legend
Broadway
silent film of the same name
released in 1933
Rye
lumbago
influenza
Maida Vale
The City of Beautiful Nonsense
The Flower of Gloster
canal journey in England
silent version

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