Later Life
Throughout her life she continued painting and exhibiting her work, which became completely abstract during the 1930s. She contributed work to Axis magazine in 1937. Dismorr committed suicide by hanging on August 29, 1939, five days before Britain declared war on Germany.
Quentin Stevenson is currently writing her biography. Catherine Heathcock's (unpublished) PhD thesis contains a complete catalogue of Dismorr's works. The letters between Dismorr and Lewis are now at Cornell University.
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