Alyson Gilbert
His father ran Joseph Frankau & Co., the cigar importing business that had been established by Gilbert’s paternal grandfather, who had moved from Diespak, Bavaria, to London in 1837. Gilbert’s mother wrote fiction under the pseudonym Frank Danby. Her novels included Dr Phillips, a Maida Vale Idyll (1887), in which she attacked the aspirations and values of middle-class Jews, and Pigs in Clover (1903).
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