Abstract
This chapter outlines O’Donovan’s brief period of time working in America and his subsequent return to London. In 1910, he became a resident of Toynbee Hall, a workers’ education settlement in East London, where he was appointed as Sub-Warden. The chapter also describes his marriage to Beryl Verschoyle, who came from a northern Protestant gentry family. This marriage caused O’Donovan to become estranged from his family, although it was welcomed by friends such as Sarah Purser, Constance Markievicz, Douglas Hyde, Horace Plunkett, the artist Dermod O’Brien, AE, and the novelist Francis Hackett. The newlyweds moved to Toynbee Hall but in 1911, with Beryl in ill-health, and in the early stages of pregnancy, O’Donovan reluctantly resigned. On his departure, Canon Barnett, Toynbee Hall’s co-founder, claimed that he had brought ‘order and administration’ into the house in a very short time.
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