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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo
		Syrie Maugham (née Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, 10 July 1879 - 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s and best-known for popularizing rooms decorated entirely in shades of white.
		Syrie Wellcome and W. Somerset Maugham married in 1917 in New Jersey, although he was predominantly homosexual and would spent much of his marriage apart from his wife.
		After Maugham's death in 1965 Beverley Nichols, a former lover of Maugham's and a close friend of Syrie's, wrote in rebuttal a defence of her called A Case of Human Bondage (1966).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Maud_Gwendolen_Syrie_Barnardo (550 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: William Somerset Maugham
		Maugham spent most of World War II in the United States, first in Hollywood (he worked on many scripts, and was one of the first authors to make significant money from film adaptations of his books) and later in the South.
		Maugham also edited and finished the autobiography of the Victorian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), called The Truth at Last, which was posthumously published in 1924.
		Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although this part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Somerset-Maugham (3959 words)

	William Somerset Maugham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although the latter part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
		Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, an autobiographical novel which deals with the life of Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned and brought up by his pious uncle.
		In 1917, in New Jersey, Maugham married his mistress, Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Dr. Thomas Barnardo and former wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wi/william_somerset_maugham.html (249 words)

	Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Syrie Maugham (née Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, 10 July 1879 - 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s and best-known for popularizing rooms decorated entirely in shades of white.
		Syrie Wellcome and W. Somerset Maugham married in 1917 in New Jersey, although he was a homosexual and would spent much of his marriage apart from his wife.
		After Maugham's death in 1965 Beverley Nichols, a former lover of Maugham's and a close friend of Syrie's, wrote in rebuttal a defence of her called A Case of Human Bondage (1966).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwendoline_Maud_Syrie_Barnardo (575 words)

	Science Fair Projects - William Somerset Maugham
		Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although the latter part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
		Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, an autobiographical novel which deals with the life of Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned and brought up by his pious uncle.
		Somerset Maugham also edited and finished the autobiography of the Victorian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), called "The Truth at Last", which was posthumously published in 1924.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/William_Somerset_Maugham (737 words)

	MAUGHAM
		Maugham proved to be an extremely intelligent young man, but the rigors of school discipline combined with continued taunts from his classmates forced him to leave school before he completed his education.
		In 1917 Maugham was sent on a top secret mission to Russia in an attempt to persuade their government to engage in war with Germany and prevent the formation of the Bolshevik government.
		In 1927 Maugham and Syrie were divorced and in 1928 he moved to the south of France to a spacious compound built in 1906 called Villa Mauresque on the French Riviera that had previously belonged to the Belgian king Leopold II.
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	William Somerset Maugham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maugham napsal komedie, psychologický romány a špionážní příběhy (ačkoli druhá část jeho práce je stěží někdy viděná jak patřit k detektivce správný).
		Maugham mistrovské dílo je všeobecně uznané být lidského otroctví, autobiografický román, který se zabývá životem Philipa Careye, kdo, jako Maugham, byl orphaned a vychoval jeho svatým strýcem.
		Maugham je hrozné koktání bylo nahrazené Philipovou koňskou nohou.
	wikipedia.infostar.cz /w/wi/william_somerset_maugham.html (158 words)

	Informat.io on W Somerset Maugham
		Maugham had been writing steadily since the age of 15 and fervently intended to become an author, but because Maugham was not of age, he could not confess this to his guardian.
		In 1928, Maugham bought Villa Mauresque on twelve acres at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, which would be his home for most of the rest of his life, and one of the great literary and social salons of the 1920s and 30s.
		Maugham, by now in his sixties, spent most of World War II in the United States, first in Hollywood (he worked on many scripts, and was one of the first authors to make significant money from film adaptations) and later in the South.
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	The Infidels - Somerset Maugham
		The upshot was that Maugham was miserable, both at the vicarage and at school, where he was bullied because of his size and his stammer but this resulted in his developing the talent for applying a wounding remark to those that displeased him.
		Maugham had been writing steadily since the age of 15 and fervently intended to become an author, but he could not tell his guardian of his wish to become a writer as he was not of age, and so he spent the next five years as a medical student in London.
		Maugham was clearly not exclusively homosexual: his affair with the then-married Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Thomas John Barnardo and wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome produced a daughter later officially named Elizabeth 'Liza' Mary Maugham (1915-1998); Syrie's husband Henry Wellcome then sued for divorce, naming Maugham as co-respondent.
	www.theinfidels.org /zunb-somersetmaugham.htm (2359 words)

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		Bis dahin hatte Maugham ein geschütztes, privilegiertes Leben geführt.
		Maugham hatte in den folgenden zehn Jahren wenig Glück mit seinen Werken.
		Somerset Maugham erwähnte nirgends seine Homosexualität und äußerte sich auch nie öffentlich über die diesbezüglichen scharfen englischen Strafgesetze. William Somerset Maugham, einer der bedeutendsten „schwulen“ Autoren, wurde durch seine Bücher und deren Verfilmungen weltweit berühmt.
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		Syrie Maugham (née Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo, 10 July 1879 - 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s and best-known for popularizing rooms decorated entirely in shades of white.
		Syrie Wellcome and W. Somerset Maugham married in 1917 in New Jersey, although he was a homosexual and would spent much of his marriage apart from his wife.
		After Maugham's death in 1965 Beverley Nichols, a former lover of Maugham's and a close friend of Syrie's, wrote in rebuttal a defence of her called A Case of Human Bondage (1966).
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Gwendoline_Maud_Syrie_Barnardo (562 words)

	Somerset Maugham
		These circumstances led the young Maugham to be shy and withdrawn; consequently he became an observer rather than an active participant, but he was able to turn this to his advantage as a writer.
		Maugham published Ashenden in 1928, a group of short stories based on his experience as a British espionage agent during World War I. For the first time, a spy was portrayed as gentlemanly, sophisticated, and aloof.
		Maugham enjoyed a royal lifestyle at the Villa Mauresque, and an invitation by Maugham to spend a few weeks there was highly prized by the literary and social elite.
	www.caxtonclub.org /reading/smaugham.html (1126 words)

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		She was alleged to have had numerous affairs, but only one, with W Somerset Maugham, is definite.
		She bore Maugham a child in 1915, and Maugham was mentioned in the ensuing divorce.
		Once the divorce with Wellcome was finalised, she married Maugham [Though Maugham continued to live with his male lover, Gerald Haxton.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/pda/A12511946?s_id=5 (197 words)

	style court: Syrie Maugham II
		The name Maugham is on my mind because of the film, The Painted Veil, based upon the book by W. Somerset Maugham.
		For a time, the writer was married to Syrie Maugham, one of the last century's most infamous interior decorators.
		Syrie is legendary for creating an all white salon at her London home in 1927.
	stylecourt.blogspot.com /2007/01/syrie-maugham-ii.html (261 words)

	MQ MAGAZINE Issue 21 - Philanthropist and scientist: Sir Henry Wellcome
		Unable to identify with her husband’s work and activities and unhappy travelling with him, Syrie was soon having affairs, which included, though with scant evidence, the American-born magnate of the department store fame, Harry G Selfridge.
		Syrie bore Maugham’s child in Rome, named Mary Elizabeth and nicknamed Liza, after Liza of Lambeth, the heroine of Maugham’s first book, written before she was born, giving her Wellcome’s surname.
		Syrie had claimed that Henry treated her with brutality, neglecting her with his endless travelling and his excessive Masonic activities.
	www.mqmagazine.co.uk /issue-21/p-10.php (499 words)

	Dallas Socialite’s Apartment Pays Tribute to British Decorator \| Articles \| test \| D Home
		Maugham’s take on design was much like her bold personality, Blake says.
		English decorator Syrie Maugham (1879-1955) has a cult following for a style that was both glamorous and groundbreaking—a recognition far nicer than her scandalous divorce from husband W. Somerset Maugham.
		Syrie also favored antique Chinese wallpaper and mirrored screens—all the above adored by her clients who were mainly made up of British and American aristocracy.
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	Did you Know Barkingside The Village Home........?
		In the same year, Thomas and Syrie open the Girls' Village Home in Essex plans are drawn up for four more cottages Based on French and German models of care, the Village was very different from the large scale institutions of the time.
		Syrie Maud and S. Maugham married in 1917 in New Jersey, although he was a known homosexual and spent much of his time abroad
		Under the name Syrie Maugham she became a well known interior designer, particularly famous for designing an all white room, in contrasting shades of white and other pale colours, with mirrors and contrasting textures.
	www.goldonian.org /barkingside/subpage/did_you_know.htm (2415 words)

	Knitting Circle Somerset Maugham
		A defence of Syrie Maugham was made by Beverley Nichols in his short book A Case of Human Bondage in 1966.
		Somerset Maugham and Gerald Haxton went to live on the French Riviera in the villa 'Mauresque'.
		A picture of Somerset Maugham in 1907 when he was 33 is shown in James Gardiner's "Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, (1996), page 31.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /wsmaugham.html (673 words)

	Syrie's turn: once, everyone read W. Somerset Maugham. But now his late ex-wife is the one selling books.(CULTURE ...
		ANY WOMAN who lives in the shadow of a powerful man and chafes at the fact that her own accomplishments, as impressive as they may be, will never measure up to his will relish the story of Syrie Maugham.
		Somerset Maugham, was after all, one of the 20th century's most successful writers.
		Well, wouldn't Syrie be pleased to know that as her husband fades into the deadly obscurity of writers nobody reads anymore, she seems to be everywhere, the latest thing.
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	SOMERSET MAUGHAM
		William Somerset Maugham, de pura ascendencia inglesa, vino a nacer en la embajada británica de París, en donde su padre se hallaba destinado, el 25 de enero de 1874, siendo el benjamín de una extensa prole.
		Maugham escribió lo mismo novelas -El filo de la navaja, Rosie, La luna y seis peniques, Luz en el alma, etc.-, como relatos cortos -Lluvia, La carta, entre muchísimos-, en los que también era un maestro, y libros de memorias.
		Maugham fue un excelente autor de relatos cortos, género muy difícil, y, al mismo tiempo un gran novelista, lo que le convierte en una rara avis dentro del mundo literario, ya que no todos los escritores de relatos cortos son igualmente buenos a la hora de escribir novelas que pasen de las 500 páginas.
	www.ccgediciones.com /Sala_de_Estar/Biografias/Maugham.htm (485 words)

	William Somerset Maugham - Biography and Works
		Maugham was born in France in 1874 as the sixth and the youngest child of an English family.
		Maugham’s first novel Liza of Lambeth was published in 1897, which was based on Maugham’s experiences as a doctor, especially those which acquired during the days he attended women in childbirth.
		In 1917, Maugham married his mistress Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo, who was a famous interior decorator who became well known especially for her trademark all-white rooms in the 1920s.
	www.online-literature.com /maugham (1065 words)

	Obituaries Today (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Somerset Maugham was born in the British Embassy in Paris on January 25, 1874.
		Maugham had sexual relationships with both men and women and in 1915, Syrie Wellcome, the daughter of Dr. Thomas Barnardo, gave birth to his child.
		Maugham was taken aback with the news and rushed to New York to be with his beloved Gerald.
	www.obituariestoday.com /Obituaries/ObitShow.cfm?Obituary_ID=29102§ion=pin (579 words)

	ipedia.com: William Somerset Maugham Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1917, in New Jersey, Maugham married his mistress, Maud Gwendolen Syrie Barnardo, a daughter of orphanage founder Dr. Thomas Barnardo and former wife of American-born English pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome.
		(She became celebrated as Syrie Maugham, a noted interior decorator who popularized the all-white room in the 1920s.) Divorced in 1928 after a tempestuous marriage that was complicated by Maugham's homosexuality, they had one daughter, Elizabeth Mary Maugham (a.k.a.
		Somerset Maugham edited and finished the biography of the victorian actor Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), called The Truth at Last", which was posthumously published in 1924.
	www.ipedia.com /william_somerset_maugham.html (252 words)

	The Modern Library \| Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
		His father, Robert Ormond Maugham, was a solicitor to the British embassy; his mother, Edith Mary, saw to it that Willie, as he would be known, was born on the grounds of the embassy so as to ensure his British citizenship.
		Still, Maugham discovered an appreciation of and gift for words, and it was during a period of studying at Heidelberg that Maugham decided to become a writer.
		Their liaison was interrupted by Maugham's wartime stint in the Ambulance Unit in France, followed by work as a secret agent.
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	Some British Intelligence Officers
		William Somerset Maugham was born in the British Embassy in Paris on 25th January, 1874.
		Maugham had sexual relationships with both men and women and in 1915, Syrie Wellcome, the daughter of Dr. Thomas Barnardo, gave birth to his child.
		Maugham also developed a reputation as a fine short-story writer, one story, Rain, which appeared in The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), was also turned into a successful feature film.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/brit_intell1.html (4936 words)

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		According to Maugham, he had based this character not just on Aleister Crowley but considered Oliver Haddo a composite of Crowley and of a portrait in oil of Alessandro del Borro, which he had seen years earlier in a museum in Berlin.
		Maugham depicted Cronshaw as a poet and philosopher, although not very successful at either.
		Maugham died on December 16th 1965 in Nice at the old age of ninety-one.
	www.redflame93.com /Maugham.html (1746 words)

	Somerset Maugham:
		Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten.
		William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 Paris, France – December 16, 1965 Nice, France) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, one of the most popular authors of the 1930s and reportedly the highest paid.
		Maugham's father was an English lawyer handling the legal affairs of the British embassy in Paris
	straightworldbank.com /wiki/Somerset_Maugham (3768 words)

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