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Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield; 1870 – 14 November 1904) was the mother of J. R. R. Tolkien. Her parents, John Suffield and Emily Jane Sparrow, lived in Stirling Road, Birmingham and owned a shop in the city centre. The Suffield family had a business in a building called Lamb House since 1812.
How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Children Dealt With Their Legendary Father’s Legacy. The biopic Tolkien, out May 10, depicts the famous author's life, but only a specific segment of it — his early life ...
Oct 27, 2016 · 1857. Birth of Arthur Reuel Tolkien, Tolkien’s father, in Birmingham. 1870. Birth of Mabel Suffield, Tolkien’s mother, in Birmingham. 21 January 1889. Birth of Edith Mary Bratt, Tolkien’s future wife, in Gloucester. 16 April 1891. Arthur Tolkien and Mabel Suffield get married in Cape Town Cathedral. 3 January 1892.
- Marriage to Arthur Tolkien
- Raising Two Sons
- Conversion to Catholicism
- Life in Moseley and Edgbaston
- Death
Mabel Suffield grew up in Birmingham. In March 1891 she sailed from England to meet and marry her fiancé and marry in South Africa after an engagement of three years. Her father, John Suffield, had not allowed her to marry until she turned twenty-one. After arriving in South Africa she travelled to Bloemfonteinwith her husband. On 3 January 1892, s...
Arthur had only amassed a modest sum of capital and it would not bring Mabel an income of more than thirty shillings a week, scarcely sufficient to maintain herself and two children even at the lowest standard of living. In summer of 1896 when Mabel found a house in Sarehole, 5 Gracewell, cheap enough for herself and the children to live independen...
Christianity became an increasingly important part in Mabel Tolkien's life after her husband's death, and at first each Sunday she took the boys on a long walk to a High Anglican church. In May of 1900, Mabel, along with her sister, May Incledon (née Suffield), was accepted into the Catholic Faith. Their family was greatly upset by this. Their fath...
That same year, the family moved to Moseley, conveniently situated on the tram route to Tolkien's new school. A Tolkien uncle who was uncharacteristically well-disposed towards Mabel paid the fees, which then amounted to twelve pounds per annum. But Mabel, still not satisfied, moved the family again, to Edgbaston, where they found a house near the ...
During the New Year of 1904, Ronald and Hilary were confined to bed with measles followed by whooping- cough, and in Hilary's case by pneumonia. The additional strain of nursing them was difficult for their mother, and as she feared it proved 'impossible to go on'. By April 1904 she was in a hospital, and her condition was diagnosed as diabetes. In...
Christopher Tolkien, who died in Draguignan, France on January 16, 2020, at the age of ninety-five, had a profound effect on Tolkien studies greater than that of other scholars.
Jan 17, 2020 · Christopher Tolkien, who curated his father's unpublished writings into multiple volumes about the history of Middle-earth, has died at age 95.
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Nine years after her death, Tolkien wrote, "My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith."
