Dr Sylvia Martin "Double Act: Eirene Mort & Nora Kate Weston"

Biographers in Conversation · Jul 9, 2026 · 36m

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Sylvia Martin chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Double Act: Eirene Mort and Nora Kate Weston.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

While Eirene Mort was a designer, black & white illustrator, watercolourist, etcher, tapestry worker and potter, Nora Kate Weston, whom Eirene named ‘Chips’, was a carpenter, woodcarver and metalworker. They lived and worked together for 60 years early in the 20th century.

Sylvia Martin crafted a dual biography because Nora had been consistently relegated to the shadows given the higher…