Betty B
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594 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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It was during this period of her life that there came a temporary parting of the ways, and Europe again claimed Oye for a time.
My husband was the British minister in Tokyo, and we proposed to Baron Ozaki's daughter that she should come and live with us, acting as my secretary and companion.
She accepted, and became not only a dearly loved friend, but an invaluable assistant to me, contributing very materially to the success of my various books on Japan by her profound knowledge of the country and the people.
When I returned to Europe she followed me, and remained with us in Italy for about two years.
A part of this time she spent in the house of my brother, Marion Crawford.
Acting as his amanuensis and cataloguing his great library with such precision and intelligence that he remarked to me, Miss Ozaki is a very exceptional person.
I had not imagined that the work could be so well done.
My brother discerned her literary talent.
and first suggested to her that she should write and publish the stories of old Japan, which she used to tell in the family circle, to the delight of old and young.
You have the gifts of imagination and of language, he said to her.
You really ought to lecture on those stories.
You would have a great success.
Italy was a revelation to Oye.
Her love of color and romance was satisfied there, and the never silent music of the south was
The gay, yet haunting songs of the people found a ready echo in her sweet voice, her delicate guitar playing, but her heart had always turned faithfully to her English mother, and when I went to live in London she passed some time there, contributing her first stories and articles to the English magazines.
Then she returned to Japan, where the famous educator, Mr Fukawa, had offered her a post in his school.
Of all her varied experiences this was the strangest.
The slight, shy girl had a class of two hundred young men and boys to instruct and keep in order, but from the crowded classroom she returned to the eeriest and loneliest of dwellings.
She says I lived in the upper story of an old Buddhist temple, really enjoying the queerness and out of the worldness of it.
Under my windows was a graveyard, where on summer nights I used to look for ghosts, but I had a terrible time with the cold and the drafts and the rats in winter.
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