John French and Charlotte Despard: The Odd Couple
Adam Hochschild looks at an unlikely pair of siblings whose high profile yet very different approach to the events of the early 20th century reflect a turbulent age.
No two people living in the public eye better reflect the divisions that characterised society in the late 19th and early 20th century – or have a more unexpected connection – than John French (1852-1925) and Charlotte Despard (1844-1939).
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