Marthe Troly-Curtin, pen name Phrynette, columnist for The Sketch magazine, who wrote to sodiers in the magazine during the First World War. The Sketch reports on her as follows, 'The stress and sorrow of war have proved that "Phrynette" can be deeply sympathetic as well as airily frivolous, and it is this gift of laughter and of tears which has won for her such favour in the pages of "The Sketch."'