A WONDERFUL WOMAN

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 576, 30 May 1925, Page 5

A WONDERFUL WOMAN

DIES AC El) 104 YEA 118. FROM THE VICTORIAN ACE By Electric Cable — Copyright. Aina, and A./i. <;a'oie Association London, May 28. Miss Elizabeth Lisle, aged 10-1 years, London’s oldest inhabitant, who was presented at Queen Victoria's court 80 years ago. died in her sleep. She had met many Dili century nobilities, including Charles Dickens, Cardinal Newman. Benjamin Disraeli, and Browning, the pnet. She often appeared publicly as an elocutionist, 1 open ting long passages Jrom. “Handel,’’., after her lOOtli bir Lhday. She refused to he treated as an invalid, declaring: “I’ve Jived longer than most modern girls will with their lipsticks and powder pulls.’’ She ,scorned their short skills, cigarettes, paint and powder.