Hewitt's History Files

She decided that if her father made no objection then the calling really did come from God.

He didn't demur so off she set, heading for India and a life now chronicled by her niece, Jennifer Schofield, who lives in Bracklesham.

Mrs Schofield, a former headmistress at Portsmouth High School for Girls, wrote the book Made In Heaven from the privileged position of being the sole person to know of the test Frieda had set.

She also wrote it from fond memory of her aunt '“ perhaps in fulfilment of another little piece of destiny . . .

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette September 10