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 {{:campbell_praed_prob.jpg?200|}}  {{:campbell_p_20250420_134608.jpg?200|}} {{:campbell_189520250420_134425.jpg?200|}}((Praed Papers, MSS 8379, Box 11, item 2043 and 2044, JOL, SLQ))
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-Rosa and Campbell Praed illustrate the popular saying about marrying in haste and repenting in leisure. They had four children, after which they they lived together, but considered the marriage over. Nevertheless, Praed encouraged and supported Rosa with her career as a writer. He also provided a gracious style of living at //Woodlands// their home in England.{{:woodlands_20250420_132735.jpg?200|}}((Praed Papers, MSS 8379, Box 11, item 2070, JOL, SLQ)) She only left him in c.1899-1900, a year before his death, to live with spiritualist Nancy Harward. Rosa believed she and Nancy were re-incarnated 'twin souls', destined to be together in succeeding lives: a more sceptical modern view is that Nancy's memories of 'past lives' derived  from schizophrenia. Despite her spiritualist belief, and perhaps influenced by Justin McCarthy, in 1891 Rosa  formally converted to Catholicism. She later changed her mind. Before her death in 1935 she drew up a codicil to her 1931 will asking to be buried with Protestant rites in All Souls Kensal Green Cemetery, London, sharing the grave of her companion for so many years, Nancy Harward. By then she lived at 2 Palermo Lower Erith Road, Torquay, Devon.((Roderick, //In Mortal Bondage//, pp.202-03; Patricia Clarke, 'Rosa Praed's Irish Connections', //The Australian Journal of Irish Studies//, vol. 1, 2001, p.122; Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, MSOM64-01, Box 10/7/3.))  \\
+Rosa and Campbell Praed illustrate the popular saying about marrying in haste and repenting in leisure. They had four children, after which they they lived together, but considered the marriage over. Nevertheless, Praed encouraged and supported Rosa with her career as a writer. He also provided a gracious style of living at //Woodlands// their home in England.{{:woodlands_20250420_132735.jpg?200|}}((Praed Papers, MSS 8379, Box 11, item 2070, JOL, SLQ)) She only left him in c.1899-1900, a year before his death, to live with spiritualist Nancy Harward. Rosa believed she and Nancy were re-incarnated 'twin souls', destined to be together in succeeding lives: a more sceptical modern view is that Nancy's memories of 'past lives' derived  from schizophrenia. Despite her spiritualist belief, and perhaps influenced by Justin McCarthy, in 1891 Rosa  formally converted to Catholicism. She later changed her mind. Before her death in 1935 she drew up a second codicil to her 1931 will asking to be buried with Protestant rites in All Souls Kensal Green Cemetery, London, sharing the grave of her companion for so many years, Nancy Harward. By then she lived at 2 Palermo Lower Erith Road, Torquay, Devon. Her step-sisters Dorothea and Ruth Murray-Prior were two of her four executors.((Roderick, //In Mortal Bondage//, pp.202-03; Patricia Clarke, 'Rosa Praed's Irish Connections', //The Australian Journal of Irish Studies//, vol. 1, 2001, p.122; Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, MSOM64-01, Box 10/7/3-5.))  \\
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 There are numerous photos of Rosa Praed and her family in the State Library of Queensland including: Rosa in Brisbane in 1894 {{:rosa_in_brisbane_20250420_135315.jpg?200|}}; Rosa aged 71 years old {{:rosa_aged_71_qsl_fl38645.jpg?200|}} Rosa arranging flowers {{:rosa_with_flowers20250420_132352.jpg?200|}}((Praed Papers, MSS 8379, Box 11, item 2032, 2072,2068, JOL, SLQ))