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January 15, 2017
Evangeline Marrs Whipple (January 15, 1862 - September 1, 1930)
Lived: Hotel Continental, Bagni di Lucca
Casa Bernardini, Bagno alla Villa
Casa Burlamacchi, Bagni di Lucca
Buried: English Cemetery, Bagni di Lucca, Provincia di Lucca, Toscana, Italy
Buried alongside: Rose Cleveland
Rose Cleveland was the sister of Pres. Grover Cleveland, who was unmarried during his first two years in office. Rose lived with him in the White House at that time and took over the hostess duties of the First Lady. She later became the principal of the Collegiate Institute of Lafayette, Indiana, a writer and lecturer, and the editor of the Chicago-based magazine Literary Life. At age 44, she started a passionate correspondence with a wealthy widow, Evangeline Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence. Things cooled off when 36 yo Evangeline married an Episcopal bishop from Minnesota, Henry Benjamin Whipple, 74 yo. By 1910, after his death, the two women rekindled their relationship and eventually moved to Bagni di Lucca, Italy, to live together. They shared the house with the English illustrator and artist Nelly Erichsen. Rose died at home during the 1918 flu pandemic, within one week of Nelly. They were buried in the English Cemetery at Bagni di Lucca. Before Evangeline’s death in 1930, she directed her executors to bury her next to Rose. “Ah, how I love you, it paralyzes me—it makes me heavy with emotion…. I tremble at the thought of you—all my whole being leans out to you…. I dare not think of your arms.” --Rose to Evangeline. “Oh, darling, come to me this night—my Clevy, my Viking, my Everything—Come! —Evangeline to Rose
Together from 1890 to 1918: 28 years.
Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple (January 15, 1862 - September 1, 1930)
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (June 13, 1846 - November 22, 1918)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
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Bagni di Lucca (formerly Bagno a Corsena) is a comune of Tuscany, Italy, in the Province of Lucca with a population of about 6,500. Bagni di Lucca with its thermal baths reached its greatest fame during the XIX century, especially during the French occupation.
Address: Cimitero Inglese, Via Letizia, 55022 Bagni di Lucca LU, Italy (44.00566, 10.58808)
Type: Cemetery (open to public)
Address: Via Bagno alla Villa, 55022 Bagni di Lucca LU, Italy (44.00971, 10.5879)
Type: Private Property
Address: Villa San Francesco, Via S. Francesco, 6, 55022 Bagni di Lucca LU, Italy (44.00832, 10.58725)
Type: Guest facility (open to public)
Phone: +39 333 765 8629
Place
The town became the summer residence of the court of Napoleon and his sister, Elisa Baciocchi. A casino was built, where gambling was part of social nightlife, as well as a large hall for dances. At the Congress of Vienna (1814), the Duchy of Lucca was assigned to Maria-Louisa of Bourbon as ruler of Parma. It continued as a popular summer resort, particularly for the English, who built a Protestant church there. The church now has been converted to the Bagni di Lucca Biblioteca (library) and holds archives and records that date back to centuries ago. In 1847 Lucca with Bagni di Lucca was ceded to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under the domain of the Grand Duke Leopold II of Lorraine. His rule started a period of decline for the springs and casino as a destination, since he was used to a secluded life. In 1853 the casino was closed. It was reopened after 1861, when Lucca became part of the unified Kingdom of Italy. In the 1940s, during the German invasion of Italy, Bagni di Lucca, along with many other towns located in the Apennines, was occupied, as they were along the Gothic Line. Several houses and mansions in the area were used as residences for German soldiers and some residents born after 1940 in this region have German ancestry. The English cemetery is a sacred place which is located in Bagni di Lucca, about 300 meters from the Church of England, on the other side of the river Lima. In 1842 Carlo Ludovico di Borbone granted to the British colony of Bagni di Lucca the faculty to establish a Protestant cemetery. They chose a place called "al Prato Santo (the Holy Meadow)" and, although the works were finished in 1844, the first burial happened immediately after the purchase. The graveyard was in operation until 1953 and there are 137 people who rest there. In 1982, with the exhaustion of a legacy for maintenance, the holy site was purchased by the town of Bagni di Lucca. The cemetery is currently managed by the Fondazione Michel de Montaigne and Istituto Storico Lucchese and is accessible to visitors every day (except Sunday) from 10.00 to 18.00. Among the people buried here, often in tombs made by famous sculptors such as Benjamin Gibson, Joseph Norfini and Emilio Duccini, are the novelist Ouida, Henry and Elizabeth Stisted and Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday.
Notable queer burials at Cimitero Inglese di Bagni di Lucca:
• Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (June 13, 1846 – November 22, 1918), was the First Lady of the United States from 1885 to 1886, during the first of her brother U.S. President Grover Cleveland’s two administrations.
• Nelly Erichsen (1862-1918) was an English illustrator and painter. From 1912 until Nov. 1918, Erichsen was living in the quiet Tuscan spa town of Bagni di Lucca with two companions - Evangeline Whipple and Rose Cleveland. Whipple was the widow of the American Episcopal Bishop Henry Whipple, known for his evangelical work among the native Indian population. Whipple and Cleveland had first met in the winter of 1889–1890, and resumed their relationship in 1901 (after the death of Henry Whipple), moving from the USA to Italy in 1910. In 1918 tragedy struck, when both Rose Cleveland and Nelly Erichsen were carried off by the 1918 flu pandemic which decimated the post-war World. Evangeline Whipple died in London in 1930, but she was laid to rest in Bagni di Lucca next to the tombs of the two friends who had preceded her.
• Ouida (1839-1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée.)
• Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), known as Ned Warren, was an American art collector and the author of works proposing an idealized view of homosexual relationships. He is now best known as the former owner of the Warren Cup in the British Museum. At Oxford Edward Perry Warren met archeologist John Marshall (1862–1928), a younger man he called "Puppy," with whom he formed a close and long-lasting relationship, though Marshall married in 1907. Beginning in 1888, Warren made England his primary home. He and Marshall lived together at Lewes House (with Marshall’s wife, Mary), a large residence in Lewes, East Sussex, where they became the center of a circle of like-minded men interested in art and antiquities who ate together in a dining room overlooked by Lucas Cranach’s “Adam and Eve,” now in the Courtauld Institute of Art. Ned Warren, John Marshall and Mary are all buried together in Bagni di Lucca.
• Evangeline Marrs Whipple (1860-1930), widow for the second time (she first married the wealthy businessman Michael Hodge Simpson and then bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple), visited Bagni di Lucca in 1910, lodging at Hotel Continental and then taking residence at Casa Bernardini at Bagno alla Villa. This is the house she shared with Rose Cleveland and Nelly Ericksen. Rose and Nelly died in 1918. In 1928 Evangeline wrote “A Famous Corner of Tuscany” about Bagni di Lucca. Around this time she bought Casa Burlamacchi, completing restoring the “Casa Piccola” (Little House, now Villa San Francesco), in front of the garden at the back of the “Casa Grande” (Big House.)
Queer Places, Vol. 3 edited by Elisa Rolle
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Casa Bernardini, Bagno alla Villa
Casa Burlamacchi, Bagni di Lucca
Buried: English Cemetery, Bagni di Lucca, Provincia di Lucca, Toscana, Italy
Buried alongside: Rose Cleveland
Rose Cleveland was the sister of Pres. Grover Cleveland, who was unmarried during his first two years in office. Rose lived with him in the White House at that time and took over the hostess duties of the First Lady. She later became the principal of the Collegiate Institute of Lafayette, Indiana, a writer and lecturer, and the editor of the Chicago-based magazine Literary Life. At age 44, she started a passionate correspondence with a wealthy widow, Evangeline Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence. Things cooled off when 36 yo Evangeline married an Episcopal bishop from Minnesota, Henry Benjamin Whipple, 74 yo. By 1910, after his death, the two women rekindled their relationship and eventually moved to Bagni di Lucca, Italy, to live together. They shared the house with the English illustrator and artist Nelly Erichsen. Rose died at home during the 1918 flu pandemic, within one week of Nelly. They were buried in the English Cemetery at Bagni di Lucca. Before Evangeline’s death in 1930, she directed her executors to bury her next to Rose. “Ah, how I love you, it paralyzes me—it makes me heavy with emotion…. I tremble at the thought of you—all my whole being leans out to you…. I dare not think of your arms.” --Rose to Evangeline. “Oh, darling, come to me this night—my Clevy, my Viking, my Everything—Come! —Evangeline to Rose
Together from 1890 to 1918: 28 years.
Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple (January 15, 1862 - September 1, 1930)
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (June 13, 1846 - November 22, 1918)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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Bagni di Lucca (formerly Bagno a Corsena) is a comune of Tuscany, Italy, in the Province of Lucca with a population of about 6,500. Bagni di Lucca with its thermal baths reached its greatest fame during the XIX century, especially during the French occupation.
Address: Cimitero Inglese, Via Letizia, 55022 Bagni di Lucca LU, Italy (44.00566, 10.58808)
Type: Cemetery (open to public)
Address: Via Bagno alla Villa, 55022 Bagni di Lucca LU, Italy (44.00971, 10.5879)
Type: Private Property
Address: Villa San Francesco, Via S. Francesco, 6, 55022 Bagni di Lucca LU, Italy (44.00832, 10.58725)
Type: Guest facility (open to public)
Phone: +39 333 765 8629
Place
The town became the summer residence of the court of Napoleon and his sister, Elisa Baciocchi. A casino was built, where gambling was part of social nightlife, as well as a large hall for dances. At the Congress of Vienna (1814), the Duchy of Lucca was assigned to Maria-Louisa of Bourbon as ruler of Parma. It continued as a popular summer resort, particularly for the English, who built a Protestant church there. The church now has been converted to the Bagni di Lucca Biblioteca (library) and holds archives and records that date back to centuries ago. In 1847 Lucca with Bagni di Lucca was ceded to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under the domain of the Grand Duke Leopold II of Lorraine. His rule started a period of decline for the springs and casino as a destination, since he was used to a secluded life. In 1853 the casino was closed. It was reopened after 1861, when Lucca became part of the unified Kingdom of Italy. In the 1940s, during the German invasion of Italy, Bagni di Lucca, along with many other towns located in the Apennines, was occupied, as they were along the Gothic Line. Several houses and mansions in the area were used as residences for German soldiers and some residents born after 1940 in this region have German ancestry. The English cemetery is a sacred place which is located in Bagni di Lucca, about 300 meters from the Church of England, on the other side of the river Lima. In 1842 Carlo Ludovico di Borbone granted to the British colony of Bagni di Lucca the faculty to establish a Protestant cemetery. They chose a place called "al Prato Santo (the Holy Meadow)" and, although the works were finished in 1844, the first burial happened immediately after the purchase. The graveyard was in operation until 1953 and there are 137 people who rest there. In 1982, with the exhaustion of a legacy for maintenance, the holy site was purchased by the town of Bagni di Lucca. The cemetery is currently managed by the Fondazione Michel de Montaigne and Istituto Storico Lucchese and is accessible to visitors every day (except Sunday) from 10.00 to 18.00. Among the people buried here, often in tombs made by famous sculptors such as Benjamin Gibson, Joseph Norfini and Emilio Duccini, are the novelist Ouida, Henry and Elizabeth Stisted and Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday.
Notable queer burials at Cimitero Inglese di Bagni di Lucca:
• Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (June 13, 1846 – November 22, 1918), was the First Lady of the United States from 1885 to 1886, during the first of her brother U.S. President Grover Cleveland’s two administrations.
• Nelly Erichsen (1862-1918) was an English illustrator and painter. From 1912 until Nov. 1918, Erichsen was living in the quiet Tuscan spa town of Bagni di Lucca with two companions - Evangeline Whipple and Rose Cleveland. Whipple was the widow of the American Episcopal Bishop Henry Whipple, known for his evangelical work among the native Indian population. Whipple and Cleveland had first met in the winter of 1889–1890, and resumed their relationship in 1901 (after the death of Henry Whipple), moving from the USA to Italy in 1910. In 1918 tragedy struck, when both Rose Cleveland and Nelly Erichsen were carried off by the 1918 flu pandemic which decimated the post-war World. Evangeline Whipple died in London in 1930, but she was laid to rest in Bagni di Lucca next to the tombs of the two friends who had preceded her.
• Ouida (1839-1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée.)
• Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), known as Ned Warren, was an American art collector and the author of works proposing an idealized view of homosexual relationships. He is now best known as the former owner of the Warren Cup in the British Museum. At Oxford Edward Perry Warren met archeologist John Marshall (1862–1928), a younger man he called "Puppy," with whom he formed a close and long-lasting relationship, though Marshall married in 1907. Beginning in 1888, Warren made England his primary home. He and Marshall lived together at Lewes House (with Marshall’s wife, Mary), a large residence in Lewes, East Sussex, where they became the center of a circle of like-minded men interested in art and antiquities who ate together in a dining room overlooked by Lucas Cranach’s “Adam and Eve,” now in the Courtauld Institute of Art. Ned Warren, John Marshall and Mary are all buried together in Bagni di Lucca.
• Evangeline Marrs Whipple (1860-1930), widow for the second time (she first married the wealthy businessman Michael Hodge Simpson and then bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple), visited Bagni di Lucca in 1910, lodging at Hotel Continental and then taking residence at Casa Bernardini at Bagno alla Villa. This is the house she shared with Rose Cleveland and Nelly Ericksen. Rose and Nelly died in 1918. In 1928 Evangeline wrote “A Famous Corner of Tuscany” about Bagni di Lucca. Around this time she bought Casa Burlamacchi, completing restoring the “Casa Piccola” (Little House, now Villa San Francesco), in front of the garden at the back of the “Casa Grande” (Big House.)
Queer Places, Vol. 3 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906695
ISBN-10: 1532906692
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Brian Howard (March 13, 1905 – January 15, 1958)
Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard was an English poet and later a writer for the New Statesman.
Born: March 13, 1905, Hascombe, United Kingdom
Died: January 15, 1958, Nice, France
Education: Eton College
Lived: Cobblestone House, Hascombe, Godalming GU8 4BT, UK (51.14153, -0.54976)
Chemin du Col de Bast, 06100 Nice, France (43.7373, 7.24177)
Buried: Cimetière Caucade, Nice, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Buried alongside: Sam Langford
Brian Howard was an English poet, whose work belied a spectacularly precocious start in life; in the end, he became more of a journalist. He published only one substantial poetry collection God Save the King. Irish-born Sam Langford was his companion, from 1943 onwards. Langford liked to sail and commanded an Air-Sea Rescue Launch in the British navy during the war. He was invalidated out of the navy with a foot problem and briefly worked for the BBC before travelling and living abroad with Howard. Like Howard, Langford became addicted to drugs. He died in his bath when he was gassed by a faulty water heater at the house he shared with Howard and Howard's mother in the south of France. A few days later, Howard committed suicide by taking an overdose of sedatives. Howard will write: "I am doing my utmost to involve myself emotionally with Sam, and have only succeeded so far physically. I feel quite unsafe still. But I never intend to let Sam go." And later: "I am now really, to tell the truth, violently in love with Sam.” After a double funeral, they were buried together at the Cimetière Caucade de Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.
Together from 1943 to 1958: 15 years.
Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard (March 13, 1905 – January 15, 1958)
Sam Langford (died in 1958)
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Dirk Bogarde purchased the large farmhouse Cobblestone House (formerly Nore House) at Hascombe, near Godalming in 1962. He lived there with his partner and manager, Anthony Forwood, until 1971.
Address: Hascombe, Godalming GU8 4BT, UK (51.14153, -0.54976)
Type: Private Property
English Heritage Building ID: 291246 (Grade II, 1960)
Place
Built in XVII century with XIX and XX century additions to right.
Timber framed, clad in whitewashed and rendered brick below, tile hung above, some in diamond pattern, with sandstone rubble and brick extensions to right, all under plain tiled roofs, some hipped and half-hipped. Two storeys with end stack to left and offset square end stack to right; square ridge stack to right of centre dated 1750 on top. Four leaded casements to first floor and three larger leaded casements to ground floor. Panelled door to right of centre. Wings at right angles to rear. Dormered extensions to right, once a barn converted in circa 1900 of no especial architectural interest, although it was formerly the home of Brian Howard. Dirk Bogarde entertained several of his Hollywood co-stars at Nore. Among them was Ingrid Bergman, who came to stay for six weeks in 1965 while she was playing “A Month in the Country,” the first production at the newly opened Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. He wrote of her in his autobiography that she “was constantly amused by my evening walk down to the vegetable gardens to pick the mint for supper”. Screen legend Judy Garland also came to Nore, in 1963, to show Bogarde a script of her semi-autobiographical film “I Could Go On Singing.” After filming “Death in Venice” in 1971, Bogarde moved to West Sussex and then France; Nore estate was sold and subsequently divided up. Bogarde describes leaving Cobblestone House in his biography “Snakes and Ladders” (1978): “…The removal vans trundled slowly down the long drive in a flurry of sleet and snow-showers, leaving the house empty, bare and strangely silent after the long racketing week of packing and crating-up of one’s life.”…
Life
Who: Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (March 28, 1921 – May 8, 1999) aka Dirk Bogarde
Of all Dirk Bogarde's houses in the fifties and sixties, Nore was the finest. Reached by a long private drive through woodland, and much more secluded than Drummers Yard had been, it was officially described as “a large, three-bay continuous jetty house of two storeys and attics”, a yeoman's house, dating in large part from the late XVI century. It stood in about ten acres, with breathtaking views across the Surrey countryside towards the South Downs. It had ten bedrooms, eight bathrooms and six reception rooms, two cottages, a separate studio, a tennis court, a garage block and four pools, “two for water-lilies, one for ducks and one for humans”. There was also a contractual right to a free daily supply of 500 gallons of water. Above all, there were extensive gardens. In the twenties and early thirties Nore had been home to the parents of Brian Howard, the American-born, Eton-educated poet, wit, aesthete, homosexual, “charismatic failure” and “the oddest aircraftman since T. E. Shaw”. He was dark and handsome, had a Machiavellian streak and was “quasi-sadistic mentally, quasi-masochistic physically”; he also had “pity and compassion for all human suffering, he loved the beauties of nature, literature and the arts”, and according to Evelyn Waugh was “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. A great platonic love of his was Daphne Fielding, and although she never saw him at Nore, when she went to stay with Dirk and Tony (Anthony Forwood), she “was conscious of Brian all the time, and his own very particular atmosphere seemed to dominate even Dirk's.” Which was indeed saying something. Howard's parents had rented Nore from Robert Godwin-Austen, a descendant of the topographer who “discovered” the Himalayan peak now known as K2, and whose travels yielded a miniature temple, with a “lion-dog” at each of the four corners, which Dirk found, buried in brambles, and with “a rather curious, and very detailed, phallic symbol standing erect in the very center! So I am not absolutely certain that it was only spirits who went there to worship.”
Queer Places, Vol. 2 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906312
ISBN-10: 1532906315
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After a double funeral, Brian Howard and Sam Langford were buried together at the Cimetière Caucade de Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, France. Brian Howard failed to fulfil his early promise and published little.
Address: Chemin du Col de Bast, 06100 Nice, France (43.7373, 7.24177)
Type: Private Property
Place
In the summer of 1949 Brian Howard and Sam Langford were looking for a house in the south of France, and started their search in Grasse, but could not find anything they liked and so they took a flat in Nice. They then went to Aix-en-Provence, where Brian Howard got jaundice. They continued to look for a house in the south of France hoping that Brian’s mother, Lura (Laura) Chess Howard, would provide the money. When they found a house at Le Rouret near Grasse she failed to provide the cash. With the death of Brian Howard’s father in October 1954 his mother inherited shares and paintings, and the sale of pictures in Nov. 1955 at Christies raised £20000. Brian Howard and Sam were still keen to settle in France and so she bought a house near Nice - Le Verger, at Col de Bast, Vallon Obscur. Brian Howard and Sam moved into the house at the beginning of January 1958 but disaster struck within two weeks of their arrival. In the morning of January 11, 1958 Sam went to have a bath but workmen had removed an exhaust pipe from the bathroom and Sam died accidentally of asphyxiation from fumes from a gas heater. He was 32. Four days later Howard killed himself by taking an overdose of sedatives. He was 52. Lura Chess Howard continued to live at Le Verger, dying there on May 29, 1965.
Life
Who: Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard (March 13, 1905 – January 15, 1958) and Sam Langford (1926-1958)
Brian Howard was an English poet and later a writer for the New Statesman. He was educated at Eton College, where he was one of the Eton Arts Society group including Harold Acton, Oliver Messel, Anthony Powell and Henry Yorke. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1923, not without difficulty. He was prominent in the group later known as the Oxford Wits. He was one of the Hypocrites group that included Harold Acton, Lord David Cecil, L. P. Hartley and Evelyn Waugh. It has been suggested that Howard was Waugh’s model for Anthony Blanche in “Brideshead Revisited.” Waugh wrote, to Lord Baldwin: "There is an aesthetic bugger who sometimes turns up in my novels under various names -- that was 2/3 Brian [Howard] and 1/3 Harold Acton. People think it was all Harold, who is a much sweeter and saner man [than Howard]." In the late 1920s, he was a key figure among London’s "Bright Young Things" - a privileged, fashionable and bohemian set of relentless party-goers, satirised in such novels as Evelyn Waugh’s 1930 "Vile Bodies" where the character of Miles Malpractice owes something to Howard. Apart from Waugh, Howard knew all this circle, including Nancy Mitford, Henry Yorke, Harold Acton, and especially Nancy Cunard with whom he shared artistic and political interests, maintaining contact throughout his life. In 1929 he was famously involved in the "Bruno Hat" hoax when the fashionable Hon Mr & Mrs Bryan Guinness promoted a spoof London art exhibition by an apparently unknown German painter Bruno Hat (impersonated by the German-speaking Tom Mitford, brother of Nancy and Diana Mitford - the latter a socialite, arts patron and friend of Howard, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh, Boris Anrep, Dora Carrington John Betjeman and other artistic and literary figures, before her second marriage to British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.) Bruno Hat’s paintings were the work of Brian Howard. Subsequently he led a very active social life, tried to come to terms with his homosexuality, and published only one substantial poetry collection “God Save the King” (1930.) During WWII took part in the Dunkirk evacuation and later worked for MI5 but was dismissed from the War Office in June 1942, after which he was conscripted to the Royal Air Force with a low-level clerk’s job at Bomber Command, High Wycombe, and an Air Ministry note on his file that he should never be given a commission. Transferred to another posting, where he referred to his commanding officer as “Colonel Cutie” (a trait Evelyn Waugh gave his rebellious rogue Basil Seal in the novel "Put Out More Flags"), Howard was dismissed in Dec. 1944, by which time he had formed a longstanding open relationship with Sam Langford, an Irishman serving in the Air Sea Rescue. After the war, Howard drifted around Europe with Sam, continuing to write occasional articles and reviews for the New Statesman, BBC and others, fitfully working on an uncompleted biography of the gay English writer Norman Douglas (author of the novel "South Wind") and doing no substantial work. Indiscreetly promiscuous, drinking heavily, taking drugs and behaving outrageously, they were expelled in turn from Monaco, France, Italy and Spain, the French authorities noting their "moralité douteuse" (dubious morality.) Evelyn Waugh wrote: "I used to know Brian Howard well—a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous—constantly attacking people with his fists in public places—so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart."
Queer Places, Vol. 3 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906695
ISBN-10: 1532906692
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Born: March 13, 1905, Hascombe, United Kingdom
Died: January 15, 1958, Nice, France
Education: Eton College
Lived: Cobblestone House, Hascombe, Godalming GU8 4BT, UK (51.14153, -0.54976)
Chemin du Col de Bast, 06100 Nice, France (43.7373, 7.24177)
Buried: Cimetière Caucade, Nice, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Buried alongside: Sam Langford
Brian Howard was an English poet, whose work belied a spectacularly precocious start in life; in the end, he became more of a journalist. He published only one substantial poetry collection God Save the King. Irish-born Sam Langford was his companion, from 1943 onwards. Langford liked to sail and commanded an Air-Sea Rescue Launch in the British navy during the war. He was invalidated out of the navy with a foot problem and briefly worked for the BBC before travelling and living abroad with Howard. Like Howard, Langford became addicted to drugs. He died in his bath when he was gassed by a faulty water heater at the house he shared with Howard and Howard's mother in the south of France. A few days later, Howard committed suicide by taking an overdose of sedatives. Howard will write: "I am doing my utmost to involve myself emotionally with Sam, and have only succeeded so far physically. I feel quite unsafe still. But I never intend to let Sam go." And later: "I am now really, to tell the truth, violently in love with Sam.” After a double funeral, they were buried together at the Cimetière Caucade de Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.
Together from 1943 to 1958: 15 years.
Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard (March 13, 1905 – January 15, 1958)
Sam Langford (died in 1958)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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Dirk Bogarde purchased the large farmhouse Cobblestone House (formerly Nore House) at Hascombe, near Godalming in 1962. He lived there with his partner and manager, Anthony Forwood, until 1971.
Address: Hascombe, Godalming GU8 4BT, UK (51.14153, -0.54976)
Type: Private Property
English Heritage Building ID: 291246 (Grade II, 1960)
Place
Built in XVII century with XIX and XX century additions to right.
Timber framed, clad in whitewashed and rendered brick below, tile hung above, some in diamond pattern, with sandstone rubble and brick extensions to right, all under plain tiled roofs, some hipped and half-hipped. Two storeys with end stack to left and offset square end stack to right; square ridge stack to right of centre dated 1750 on top. Four leaded casements to first floor and three larger leaded casements to ground floor. Panelled door to right of centre. Wings at right angles to rear. Dormered extensions to right, once a barn converted in circa 1900 of no especial architectural interest, although it was formerly the home of Brian Howard. Dirk Bogarde entertained several of his Hollywood co-stars at Nore. Among them was Ingrid Bergman, who came to stay for six weeks in 1965 while she was playing “A Month in the Country,” the first production at the newly opened Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. He wrote of her in his autobiography that she “was constantly amused by my evening walk down to the vegetable gardens to pick the mint for supper”. Screen legend Judy Garland also came to Nore, in 1963, to show Bogarde a script of her semi-autobiographical film “I Could Go On Singing.” After filming “Death in Venice” in 1971, Bogarde moved to West Sussex and then France; Nore estate was sold and subsequently divided up. Bogarde describes leaving Cobblestone House in his biography “Snakes and Ladders” (1978): “…The removal vans trundled slowly down the long drive in a flurry of sleet and snow-showers, leaving the house empty, bare and strangely silent after the long racketing week of packing and crating-up of one’s life.”…
Life
Who: Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (March 28, 1921 – May 8, 1999) aka Dirk Bogarde
Of all Dirk Bogarde's houses in the fifties and sixties, Nore was the finest. Reached by a long private drive through woodland, and much more secluded than Drummers Yard had been, it was officially described as “a large, three-bay continuous jetty house of two storeys and attics”, a yeoman's house, dating in large part from the late XVI century. It stood in about ten acres, with breathtaking views across the Surrey countryside towards the South Downs. It had ten bedrooms, eight bathrooms and six reception rooms, two cottages, a separate studio, a tennis court, a garage block and four pools, “two for water-lilies, one for ducks and one for humans”. There was also a contractual right to a free daily supply of 500 gallons of water. Above all, there were extensive gardens. In the twenties and early thirties Nore had been home to the parents of Brian Howard, the American-born, Eton-educated poet, wit, aesthete, homosexual, “charismatic failure” and “the oddest aircraftman since T. E. Shaw”. He was dark and handsome, had a Machiavellian streak and was “quasi-sadistic mentally, quasi-masochistic physically”; he also had “pity and compassion for all human suffering, he loved the beauties of nature, literature and the arts”, and according to Evelyn Waugh was “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. A great platonic love of his was Daphne Fielding, and although she never saw him at Nore, when she went to stay with Dirk and Tony (Anthony Forwood), she “was conscious of Brian all the time, and his own very particular atmosphere seemed to dominate even Dirk's.” Which was indeed saying something. Howard's parents had rented Nore from Robert Godwin-Austen, a descendant of the topographer who “discovered” the Himalayan peak now known as K2, and whose travels yielded a miniature temple, with a “lion-dog” at each of the four corners, which Dirk found, buried in brambles, and with “a rather curious, and very detailed, phallic symbol standing erect in the very center! So I am not absolutely certain that it was only spirits who went there to worship.”
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After a double funeral, Brian Howard and Sam Langford were buried together at the Cimetière Caucade de Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, France. Brian Howard failed to fulfil his early promise and published little.
Address: Chemin du Col de Bast, 06100 Nice, France (43.7373, 7.24177)
Type: Private Property
Place
In the summer of 1949 Brian Howard and Sam Langford were looking for a house in the south of France, and started their search in Grasse, but could not find anything they liked and so they took a flat in Nice. They then went to Aix-en-Provence, where Brian Howard got jaundice. They continued to look for a house in the south of France hoping that Brian’s mother, Lura (Laura) Chess Howard, would provide the money. When they found a house at Le Rouret near Grasse she failed to provide the cash. With the death of Brian Howard’s father in October 1954 his mother inherited shares and paintings, and the sale of pictures in Nov. 1955 at Christies raised £20000. Brian Howard and Sam were still keen to settle in France and so she bought a house near Nice - Le Verger, at Col de Bast, Vallon Obscur. Brian Howard and Sam moved into the house at the beginning of January 1958 but disaster struck within two weeks of their arrival. In the morning of January 11, 1958 Sam went to have a bath but workmen had removed an exhaust pipe from the bathroom and Sam died accidentally of asphyxiation from fumes from a gas heater. He was 32. Four days later Howard killed himself by taking an overdose of sedatives. He was 52. Lura Chess Howard continued to live at Le Verger, dying there on May 29, 1965.
Life
Who: Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard (March 13, 1905 – January 15, 1958) and Sam Langford (1926-1958)
Brian Howard was an English poet and later a writer for the New Statesman. He was educated at Eton College, where he was one of the Eton Arts Society group including Harold Acton, Oliver Messel, Anthony Powell and Henry Yorke. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1923, not without difficulty. He was prominent in the group later known as the Oxford Wits. He was one of the Hypocrites group that included Harold Acton, Lord David Cecil, L. P. Hartley and Evelyn Waugh. It has been suggested that Howard was Waugh’s model for Anthony Blanche in “Brideshead Revisited.” Waugh wrote, to Lord Baldwin: "There is an aesthetic bugger who sometimes turns up in my novels under various names -- that was 2/3 Brian [Howard] and 1/3 Harold Acton. People think it was all Harold, who is a much sweeter and saner man [than Howard]." In the late 1920s, he was a key figure among London’s "Bright Young Things" - a privileged, fashionable and bohemian set of relentless party-goers, satirised in such novels as Evelyn Waugh’s 1930 "Vile Bodies" where the character of Miles Malpractice owes something to Howard. Apart from Waugh, Howard knew all this circle, including Nancy Mitford, Henry Yorke, Harold Acton, and especially Nancy Cunard with whom he shared artistic and political interests, maintaining contact throughout his life. In 1929 he was famously involved in the "Bruno Hat" hoax when the fashionable Hon Mr & Mrs Bryan Guinness promoted a spoof London art exhibition by an apparently unknown German painter Bruno Hat (impersonated by the German-speaking Tom Mitford, brother of Nancy and Diana Mitford - the latter a socialite, arts patron and friend of Howard, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh, Boris Anrep, Dora Carrington John Betjeman and other artistic and literary figures, before her second marriage to British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.) Bruno Hat’s paintings were the work of Brian Howard. Subsequently he led a very active social life, tried to come to terms with his homosexuality, and published only one substantial poetry collection “God Save the King” (1930.) During WWII took part in the Dunkirk evacuation and later worked for MI5 but was dismissed from the War Office in June 1942, after which he was conscripted to the Royal Air Force with a low-level clerk’s job at Bomber Command, High Wycombe, and an Air Ministry note on his file that he should never be given a commission. Transferred to another posting, where he referred to his commanding officer as “Colonel Cutie” (a trait Evelyn Waugh gave his rebellious rogue Basil Seal in the novel "Put Out More Flags"), Howard was dismissed in Dec. 1944, by which time he had formed a longstanding open relationship with Sam Langford, an Irishman serving in the Air Sea Rescue. After the war, Howard drifted around Europe with Sam, continuing to write occasional articles and reviews for the New Statesman, BBC and others, fitfully working on an uncompleted biography of the gay English writer Norman Douglas (author of the novel "South Wind") and doing no substantial work. Indiscreetly promiscuous, drinking heavily, taking drugs and behaving outrageously, they were expelled in turn from Monaco, France, Italy and Spain, the French authorities noting their "moralité douteuse" (dubious morality.) Evelyn Waugh wrote: "I used to know Brian Howard well—a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous—constantly attacking people with his fists in public places—so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart."
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Alma Karlin (October 12, 1889 – January 15, 1950)
Alma Vilibalda Maximiliana Karlin was a Slovene-Austrian traveler, writer, poet, collector, polyglot and theosophist.
Born: October 12, 1889, Celje, Slovenia
Died: January 15, 1950, Pečovnik, Slovenia
Books: The death-thorn
Lived: Pečovnik 26, 3000 Celje, Slovenia (46.19918, 15.26535)
Buried: Svetina, Svetina, Obcina Store, Savinjska, Slovenia
Buried alongside: Thea Schreiber Gammelin
Alma Karlin was a Slovene-Austrian traveler, writer, poet, collector, polyglot and theosophist. In 1932, Alma visited Stockholm and gave a talk about her travel on the radio. After the broadcast, painter Thea Schreiber Gammelin contacted her. This meeting evolved into longstanding friendship. Thea introduced Alma to the Nobel Prize for literature, Selma Lagerlöf, who evaluated her work very positively. Alma asked seventeen years younger Thea to become her personal secretary. After the occupation of Yugoslavia, in 1941, Gestapo persecuted Alma and finally arrested her, confiscated all her property and sent her to Dachau. However, she somehow succeeded to escape from the transport and fled to partisans. During the war, Thea joined the partisans too and was severely wounded. After the war, the authorities did not want to have anything to do with the writer who wrote in German. Alma’s and Thea’s spared founds were in foreign banks and therefore inaccessible, so they moved in a small house on the hill Pečovnik above Celje and lived humbly with Thea’s pension, often in shortage. Alma died from cancer in 1950 and was buried in the church's courtyard at Svetina. Thea died 38 years later, and is buried near Alma.
Together from 1932 to 1950: 18 years.
Alma Vilibalda Maximiliana Karlin (October 12, 1889 – January 14, 1950)
Thea Schreiber Gammelin (1906-1988)
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At Pečovnik, at the city outskirts, is the house where Alma M. Karlin resided together with her friend Thea during the final years of her life. The residence at Pečovnik was named a cultural landmark of local importance and hosts the exhibition “The Lonely Voyage of Alma M. Karlin.”
Address: Pečovnik 26, 3000 Celje, Slovenia (46.19918, 15.26535)
Type: Museum (open to public)
Place
Pečovnik is a settlement on the left bank of the Savinja River in the City Municipality of Celje in eastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of the Styria region. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Savinja Statistical Region. The writer Alma Karlin lived the last years of her life and died in the village. Her house is now a small museum.
Life
Who: Alma Vilibalda Maximiliana Karlin (October 12, 1889 – January 15, 1950) and Thea Schreiber Gammelin (1906-1988)
Alma Karlin was an extraordinary traveller, polyglot, theosophist, and writer from Celje. From 1919 to 1927 she travelled to South and North America, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and various Asian countries and supported herself with odd jobs and writing. Her travel and fiction novels (written in German) became very popular in the 1930s (“The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman” and “The Spell of the South Sea,” a novel in two volumes was reprinted several times in the edition of over 100,000 copies.) During the war her work was banned and in 1944 she joined the Partisans. After the war she lived in a small house in Pečovnik above Celje in straitened circumstances together with her companion Thea Schreiber Gamelin. Alma’s work had been forgotten till the 1960s when ethnologists began to study her collections. Nowadays Alma Karlin inspires artists, feminists, historians as well as the inhabitants of Celje and the general public. Alma Karlin and Thea Schreiber Gammelin are buried together at the church’s courtyard at Svetina. The parish church is dedicated to the Mother of God and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje. It predates its earliest mention in written documents in 1480. Next to the church is a chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross. It dates to the late XV century, but was extensively rebuilt after a fire in 1714 that destroyed most of the village.
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Born: October 12, 1889, Celje, Slovenia
Died: January 15, 1950, Pečovnik, Slovenia
Books: The death-thorn
Lived: Pečovnik 26, 3000 Celje, Slovenia (46.19918, 15.26535)
Buried: Svetina, Svetina, Obcina Store, Savinjska, Slovenia
Buried alongside: Thea Schreiber Gammelin
Alma Karlin was a Slovene-Austrian traveler, writer, poet, collector, polyglot and theosophist. In 1932, Alma visited Stockholm and gave a talk about her travel on the radio. After the broadcast, painter Thea Schreiber Gammelin contacted her. This meeting evolved into longstanding friendship. Thea introduced Alma to the Nobel Prize for literature, Selma Lagerlöf, who evaluated her work very positively. Alma asked seventeen years younger Thea to become her personal secretary. After the occupation of Yugoslavia, in 1941, Gestapo persecuted Alma and finally arrested her, confiscated all her property and sent her to Dachau. However, she somehow succeeded to escape from the transport and fled to partisans. During the war, Thea joined the partisans too and was severely wounded. After the war, the authorities did not want to have anything to do with the writer who wrote in German. Alma’s and Thea’s spared founds were in foreign banks and therefore inaccessible, so they moved in a small house on the hill Pečovnik above Celje and lived humbly with Thea’s pension, often in shortage. Alma died from cancer in 1950 and was buried in the church's courtyard at Svetina. Thea died 38 years later, and is buried near Alma.
Together from 1932 to 1950: 18 years.
Alma Vilibalda Maximiliana Karlin (October 12, 1889 – January 14, 1950)
Thea Schreiber Gammelin (1906-1988)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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At Pečovnik, at the city outskirts, is the house where Alma M. Karlin resided together with her friend Thea during the final years of her life. The residence at Pečovnik was named a cultural landmark of local importance and hosts the exhibition “The Lonely Voyage of Alma M. Karlin.”
Address: Pečovnik 26, 3000 Celje, Slovenia (46.19918, 15.26535)
Type: Museum (open to public)
Place
Pečovnik is a settlement on the left bank of the Savinja River in the City Municipality of Celje in eastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of the Styria region. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Savinja Statistical Region. The writer Alma Karlin lived the last years of her life and died in the village. Her house is now a small museum.
Life
Who: Alma Vilibalda Maximiliana Karlin (October 12, 1889 – January 15, 1950) and Thea Schreiber Gammelin (1906-1988)
Alma Karlin was an extraordinary traveller, polyglot, theosophist, and writer from Celje. From 1919 to 1927 she travelled to South and North America, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and various Asian countries and supported herself with odd jobs and writing. Her travel and fiction novels (written in German) became very popular in the 1930s (“The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman” and “The Spell of the South Sea,” a novel in two volumes was reprinted several times in the edition of over 100,000 copies.) During the war her work was banned and in 1944 she joined the Partisans. After the war she lived in a small house in Pečovnik above Celje in straitened circumstances together with her companion Thea Schreiber Gamelin. Alma’s work had been forgotten till the 1960s when ethnologists began to study her collections. Nowadays Alma Karlin inspires artists, feminists, historians as well as the inhabitants of Celje and the general public. Alma Karlin and Thea Schreiber Gammelin are buried together at the church’s courtyard at Svetina. The parish church is dedicated to the Mother of God and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje. It predates its earliest mention in written documents in 1480. Next to the church is a chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross. It dates to the late XV century, but was extensively rebuilt after a fire in 1714 that destroyed most of the village.
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January 14, 2017
Willard K.H. Ching (1942 – January 14, 1992)
Buried: Diamond Head Memorial Park, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA, Plot: Peace#7-BH-4
Charles Bell was an American Photorealist artist, known primarily for his large-scale still lives of Toys, Gumball machines, Pinball machines and marbles. Bell died in Manhattan, New York of AIDS-related lymphoma on April 1, 1995. His partner of 26 years, interior designer Willard Ching, had died of AIDS three years earlier, in 1992. The New York Times quoted Henry Geldzahler as saying, "[the pinball series is] the artist's greatest achievement -- visually, technically and technologically." According to a Guggeheim Foundation biography, Bell never received any formal training in his art. He claimed inspiration from Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. He also worked in the San Francisco studio of Donald Timothy Flores, who painted mostly small-scale landscapes and still lives. He was given the Society of Western Artists Award in 1968. After moving to New York, Bell created his paintings by photographing a subject in still life and working from it. Bell's work, created in his New York loft studio on West Broadway, is noted not only for the glass-like surface, done largely in oil, but also for their significant scale. In the mid 70’s he collaborated on a painting with Dali, who had great interest in the Photorealist. After Bell's death, Louis K. Meisel became the owner of all intellectual property rights to the body of art created by Bell.
Together from 1966 to 1992: 26 years.
Charles Bell (1935 - April 1, 1995)
Willard K.H. Ching (1942 – January 14, 1992)
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Charles Bell (1935-1995) was an American Photorealist artist, known primarily for his large-scale still lives of Toys, Gumball machines, Pinball machines and marbles. Bell died in Manhattan, New York of AIDS-related lymphoma on April 1, 1995. His partner of 26 years, interior designer Willard Ching (1942-1992), had died of AIDS three years earlier. Ching was born in Honolulu and was founder of Will Ching Planning & Design. He was former national director of the Institute of Business Designers and twice president of the National Council for Interior Design Qualification. He was also vice president of Contract Interior Design Standards governing board; and was an honorary member of the International Society of Interior Designers. Projects on which he worked included the New York City police headquartes, Westinghouse Nuclear Center in Pennsylvania and Lum Yip Kee offices in Honolulu. Both Bell and Ching are buried at Diamond Head Memorial Park, Honolulu, Plot: Flowers Urn Gar. A-4 (Bell) and Plot: Peace#7-BH-4 (Ching)
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
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Charles Bell was an American Photorealist artist, known primarily for his large-scale still lives of Toys, Gumball machines, Pinball machines and marbles. Bell died in Manhattan, New York of AIDS-related lymphoma on April 1, 1995. His partner of 26 years, interior designer Willard Ching, had died of AIDS three years earlier, in 1992. The New York Times quoted Henry Geldzahler as saying, "[the pinball series is] the artist's greatest achievement -- visually, technically and technologically." According to a Guggeheim Foundation biography, Bell never received any formal training in his art. He claimed inspiration from Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. He also worked in the San Francisco studio of Donald Timothy Flores, who painted mostly small-scale landscapes and still lives. He was given the Society of Western Artists Award in 1968. After moving to New York, Bell created his paintings by photographing a subject in still life and working from it. Bell's work, created in his New York loft studio on West Broadway, is noted not only for the glass-like surface, done largely in oil, but also for their significant scale. In the mid 70’s he collaborated on a painting with Dali, who had great interest in the Photorealist. After Bell's death, Louis K. Meisel became the owner of all intellectual property rights to the body of art created by Bell.
Together from 1966 to 1992: 26 years.
Charles Bell (1935 - April 1, 1995)
Willard K.H. Ching (1942 – January 14, 1992)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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Charles Bell (1935-1995) was an American Photorealist artist, known primarily for his large-scale still lives of Toys, Gumball machines, Pinball machines and marbles. Bell died in Manhattan, New York of AIDS-related lymphoma on April 1, 1995. His partner of 26 years, interior designer Willard Ching (1942-1992), had died of AIDS three years earlier. Ching was born in Honolulu and was founder of Will Ching Planning & Design. He was former national director of the Institute of Business Designers and twice president of the National Council for Interior Design Qualification. He was also vice president of Contract Interior Design Standards governing board; and was an honorary member of the International Society of Interior Designers. Projects on which he worked included the New York City police headquartes, Westinghouse Nuclear Center in Pennsylvania and Lum Yip Kee offices in Honolulu. Both Bell and Ching are buried at Diamond Head Memorial Park, Honolulu, Plot: Flowers Urn Gar. A-4 (Bell) and Plot: Peace#7-BH-4 (Ching)
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Robert T. Odeman (November 30, 1904 – January 14, 1985)
Robert T. Odeman was a gay German classical pianist, actor, writer, and composer. He was a Holocaust survivor.
Born: November 30, 1904, Hamburg, Germany
Died: January 14, 1985, Berlin, Germany
Robert T. Odeman was a German classical pianist, actor, writer, and composer. He was a Holocaust survivor. In 1922, at the age of 17, Odeman met his first love, architecture student Martin Ulrich Eppendorf, who went by the name Muli. The two shared a close relationship for 10 years until Muli's death. A year after Muli’s death, in 1933, Odeman became musical director of the New Theater in Hamburg. In 1935, Odeman opened a cabaret in Hamburg, which was shut down a year later by the Nazis, who claimed it was politically subversive. Odeman's boyfriend, a bookseller, was pressured by the Gestapo to denounce him in 1937 and he was arrested under Paragraph 175, which outlawed homosexual acts between men. Odeman was sentenced to 27 months in prison, which he spent first in Plötzensee and then in various Berlin prisons. In 1959, Odeman met the 25-year-old Günter Nöring, with whom he lived until his death. Since the two were unable to marry, Odeman adopted his younger partner.
Together from 1959 to 1985: 26 years.
Günter Odeman-Nöring (born 1934)
Martin Ulrich Eppendorf (died in 1932)
Martin Hoyer aka Robert T. Odeman (November 30, 1904 – January 14, 1985)
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Born: November 30, 1904, Hamburg, Germany
Died: January 14, 1985, Berlin, Germany
Robert T. Odeman was a German classical pianist, actor, writer, and composer. He was a Holocaust survivor. In 1922, at the age of 17, Odeman met his first love, architecture student Martin Ulrich Eppendorf, who went by the name Muli. The two shared a close relationship for 10 years until Muli's death. A year after Muli’s death, in 1933, Odeman became musical director of the New Theater in Hamburg. In 1935, Odeman opened a cabaret in Hamburg, which was shut down a year later by the Nazis, who claimed it was politically subversive. Odeman's boyfriend, a bookseller, was pressured by the Gestapo to denounce him in 1937 and he was arrested under Paragraph 175, which outlawed homosexual acts between men. Odeman was sentenced to 27 months in prison, which he spent first in Plötzensee and then in various Berlin prisons. In 1959, Odeman met the 25-year-old Günter Nöring, with whom he lived until his death. Since the two were unable to marry, Odeman adopted his younger partner.
Together from 1959 to 1985: 26 years.
Günter Odeman-Nöring (born 1934)
Martin Ulrich Eppendorf (died in 1932)
Martin Hoyer aka Robert T. Odeman (November 30, 1904 – January 14, 1985)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
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Ralph Chubb (February 8, 1892 - January 14, 1960)
Ralph Nicholas Chubb was an English poet, printer, and artist. Heavily influenced by Whitman, Blake, and the Romantics, his work was the creation of a highly intricate personal mythology, one that was anti-materialist and sexually revolutionary.
Born: February 8, 1892, Harpenden, United Kingdom
Died: January 14, 1960, Stratfield Saye
Resting place: St Mary (Swan Street, Kingsclere, Berkshire, RG20 5PJ)
Books: An Eye for Ganymede: Forty Epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis
Education: Slade School of Fine Art
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Ralph Chubb (1892–1960) was an English poet, printer, and artist. Heavily influenced by Whitman, Blake, and the Romantics, his work was the creation of a highly intricate personal mythology, one that was anti-materialist and sexually revolutionary. Failing in health and facing continuing legal and financial difficulties, Ralph Chubb abandoned his controversial works in the mid-fifties, and began to collect and reprint his early poems and childhood memories. “Treasure Trove” and “The Golden City” (published posthumously) are devoid of the usual profusion of naked, lissome youths, but instead offer a glimpse into his youthful imagination, and some of his most charming poetry. In the final years of his life he donated his remaining volumes to the national libraries of Britain. He died peacefully at Fair Oak Cottage (Fair Oak Lane, Stratfield Saye, Hampshire RG7 2DL, English Heritage Building ID: 139103, 1984) and was buried next to his parents at St Mary (Swan Street, Kingsclere, Berkshire, RG20 5PJ). Chubb's own assessment of his work conforms to the general critical reaction: “I do not necessarily claim to be a great artist or writer; but I claim to be a true spirit – this is a subtler test. Seek me out; but you may not find me.”
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Born: February 8, 1892, Harpenden, United Kingdom
Died: January 14, 1960, Stratfield Saye
Resting place: St Mary (Swan Street, Kingsclere, Berkshire, RG20 5PJ)
Books: An Eye for Ganymede: Forty Epigrams of Marcus Valerius Martialis
Education: Slade School of Fine Art
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Ralph Chubb (1892–1960) was an English poet, printer, and artist. Heavily influenced by Whitman, Blake, and the Romantics, his work was the creation of a highly intricate personal mythology, one that was anti-materialist and sexually revolutionary. Failing in health and facing continuing legal and financial difficulties, Ralph Chubb abandoned his controversial works in the mid-fifties, and began to collect and reprint his early poems and childhood memories. “Treasure Trove” and “The Golden City” (published posthumously) are devoid of the usual profusion of naked, lissome youths, but instead offer a glimpse into his youthful imagination, and some of his most charming poetry. In the final years of his life he donated his remaining volumes to the national libraries of Britain. He died peacefully at Fair Oak Cottage (Fair Oak Lane, Stratfield Saye, Hampshire RG7 2DL, English Heritage Building ID: 139103, 1984) and was buried next to his parents at St Mary (Swan Street, Kingsclere, Berkshire, RG20 5PJ). Chubb's own assessment of his work conforms to the general critical reaction: “I do not necessarily claim to be a great artist or writer; but I claim to be a true spirit – this is a subtler test. Seek me out; but you may not find me.”
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Moses John Jackson (1858 – January 14, 1923)
A.E. Housman was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. At St John's College, Oxford, Housman formed strong friendships with two roommates, Moses Jackson and A. W. Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the latter's feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual. After Oxford, Jackson got a job as a clerk in the Patent Office in London and arranged a job there for Housman as well. They shared a flat with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885 when Housman moved to lodgings of his own. Moses Jackson moved to India in 1887. He remained in India his entire career, returning to England only briefly to marry Rosa Chambers and for various trips home. In 1900, he asked Housman to stand as the godfather to his fourth son, Gerald Christopher Arden Jackson. When he retired, he moved to British Columbia with his family and settled in as a farmer. He died in 1923. Jackson’s last visit to England in 1921 was also the last time Housman saw him. Mo’s last letter was preserved by A.E., who retraced the shaky pencil with ink and kept it in a desk drawer, where his brother Laurence, found it after Housman’s death in 1936. In 1942, Laurence Housman deposited an essay entitled A.E. Housman's De Amicitia in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years. The essay discussed A.E.'s homosexuality and his love for Moses.
They met in 1877 and remained friends until Jackson’s death in 1923: 46 years.
Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936)
Moses John Jackson (1858 – January 14, 1923)
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They met in 1877 and remained friends until Jackson’s death in 1923: 46 years.
Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936)
Moses John Jackson (1858 – January 14, 1923)
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At St John's College, Oxford, A.E. Housman formed strong friendships with two roommates, Moses Jackson and A.W. Pollard. Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, though the latter's feelings were not reciprocated, as Jackson was heterosexual. After Oxford, Jackson got a job as a clerk in the Patent Office in London and arranged a job there for Housman as well. They shared a flat at 82 Talbot Road, Westbourne Park, W2 from 1882 with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885 when Housman moved to lodgings of his own at nearby 39 Northumberland Place, W2 from 1885 to 1886. He had also lived at number 15 Northumberland Place, W2 from 1881 to 1882.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle (July 14, 1801 – April 21, 1866)
Jane Welsh Carlyle was the wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle. Their long marriage was close but tempestuous, complicated by other relationships on both sides, though these appear to have been platonic, as their own was believed to have been.
Born: January 14, 1801, Haddington, United Kingdom
Died: April 21, 1866, Haddington, United Kingdom
Spouse: Thomas Carlyle (m. 1826–1866)
Lived: Carlyle’s House, 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London SW3 5HL, UK (51.48427, -0.16994)
Craigenputtock, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway DG2, UK (55.12019, -3.92846)
Buried: Ecclefechan Churchyard, Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
A revealing private homosexual document of the 19th century is the ardent correspondence of popular novelist Geraldine Jewsbury with Jane Welsh Carlyle, which lasted from 1841, shortly after they met, until Mrs. Carlyle's death in 1866. (A selection of these letters from 1841 to 1852 was published in 1892; Jewsbury destroyed all of Mrs. Carlyle's letters to her on her deathbed.) Apparently bisexual (she had similarly passionate correspondences with two men), Jewsbury speaks to Mrs. Carlyle in intense, and knowing, romantic terms--for example, on October 29, 1841, she declares, "I love you, my darling, more than I can express, more than I am conscious of myself. . . . I feel towards you much more like a lover than a female friend!" Jane married essayist Thomas Carlyle but the marriage was often unhappy. Thomas was devoted to Lady Harriet Mary Montagu, eldest daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, who was married to Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton. When Lady Harriet died, Lord Ashburton married Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, who was Jane’s friend and who subsequently, after her husband’s death in 1864, had an intimate relationship with the sculptor Harriet Hosmer.
They met in 1841 and remained friends until Carlyle’s death in 1866: 25 years.
Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (August 22, 1812 – September 23, 1880)
Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (January 14, 1801 – April 21, 1866)
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The XIX century four-storey home of Thomas Carlyle is now a Victorian time capsule of furniture and relics.
Address: 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London SW3 5HL, UK (51.48427, -0.16994)
Type: Museum (open to public)
English Heritage Building ID: 203648 (Grade II, 1954)
Place
Carlyle’s House, in the district of Chelsea, in central London, was the home acquired by the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, after having lived at Craigenputtock in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Jane Welsh Carlyle was a prominent woman of letters, for nearly half a century. The building dates from 1708 and is at No. 24 Cheyne Row (No. 5 at Carlyle’s time); the house is now owned by the National Trust. The house is a typical Georgian terraced house, a modestly comfortable home where the Carlyles lived with one servant and Jane’s dog, Nero. The house was opened to the public in 1895, just fourteen years after Carlyle’s death. It is preserved very much as it was when the Carlyles lived there despite another resident moving in after them with her scores of cats and dogs. It is a good example of a middle class Victorian home due to the efforts of devotees tracking down much of the original furniture owned by the Carlyles. It contains some of the Carlyles’ books (many on permanent loan from the London Library, which was established by Carlyle), pictures and personal possessions, together with collections of portraits by artist such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Helen Allingham and memorabilia assembled by their admirers. The house is made up of four floors — a basement which houses the kitchen, the ground floor which was the Carlyles’ parlour, the first floor where the drawing room/library and Jane’s bedroom are found, the second floor which was Thomas’ bedroom and is now the Custodian’s residence, and the attic, which was converted into a study in an attempt to remove Carlyle from the constant noise of the street and neighbours. It has a small walled garden which is preserved much as it was when Thomas and Jane lived there — the fig tree still produces fruit today. Theatre producer Stanford Holme became curator of the house and moved there with his wife, the actress Thea Holme in 1959. She took up writing, beginning with a book about the lives of Thomas and Jane Carlyle at the house, “The Carlyles at Home” (1965.)
Life
Who: Jane Welsh Carlyle, née Jane Baillie Welsh (January 14, 1801 – April 21, 1866)
Jane Welsh Carlyle had a long lasting relationship (1840-1866) with fellow writer Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880.) The two women first met when Thomas invited Geraldine to Cheyne Row, where Thomas and Jane lived. Geraldine had written to Thomas prior to the invitation admiring his work and also expressing her religious doubt. Geraldine was going through a depressive time, but she also contacted Thomas in the hopes of entering the literary realm in England. When Geraldine and Jane met, their friendship turned out to be more of a romantic relationship. It is evident both women had feelings for each other, but there is no evidence of them being lesbian lovers. Jane always remained dutiful to her husband and neither had acted upon any romantic feelings. This caused a lot of jealousy between the two women as Jane always remained married to Thomas and Geraldine had lovers of her own. However, they both had passionate feelings towards one another and that passion is expressed in their many letters to one another. When Charlotte Saunders Cushman made England her home for several years, she became friends with Geraldine Jewsbury, who is said to have based a character on Cushman in her 1848 novel “The Half Sisters.”
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Craigenputtock is the craig/whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks.) It is a 800-acre (3.2 km2) upland farming estate in the civil parish of Dunscore in Dumfriesshire, within the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway.
Address: Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway DG2, UK (55.12019, -3.92846)
Type: Private Property
Historic Scotland Building ID: 4250 (Grade B, 1971)
Place
Craigenputtock was the property for generations, since ca XVI century of the family Welsh, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle, descended on the paternal side from Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of John Knox, which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828. It was once the residence of the well-known writer Thomas Carlyle, who wrote many famous works there. It comprises the principal residence – a two-storey, 4 bedroomed Georgian Country House, 2 cottages and a farmstead, 315 acres (127 ha) of moorland hill rising to 1,000 ft (300 m) above sea level, 350 acres (140 ha) of inbye ground of which 40 acres (16 ha) is arable/ploughable and 135 acres (55 ha) of woodland/forestry. The Carlyles remained at Craigenputtock for seven years (before moving to Carlyle’s House in Cheyne Row, London), where "Sartor Resartus" was written. The property was bequeathed by Thomas Carlyle to the Edinburgh University on his death in 1881. It is now home to the Carter-Campbell family, and managed by the C.C.C. (Carlyle Craigenputtock Circle.)
Life
Who: Jane Welsh Carlyle, née Jane Baillie Welsh (January 14, 1801 – April 21, 1866)
Jane Welsh Carlyle was the wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle and has been cited as the reason for his fame and fortune. She was most notable as a letter-writer. Jane had been introduced to Carlyle by her tutor Edward Irving, with whom she came to have a mutual romantic (although not sexually intimate) attraction. The couple married in 1826 and for the first seven years lived on the farm in Scotland; the marriage was often unhappy. Jane was also jealous of a friendship her husband had with Lady Harriet Mary Montagu, eldest daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, who was married to Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton. When Lady Harriet died, Lord Ashburton married Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, who was Jane’s friend and who, subsequently, after her husband’s death in 1864, had an intimate relationship with the sculptor Harriet Hosmer. Harriet Hosmer was also a lover of Matilda Hays, former companion of Charlotte Saunders Cushman and later partner of Adelaide Anne Procter, poet and philanthropist. Although Adelaide Procter had died 30 years before Hays, the Liverpool Echo obituary stated that she had been "the dear friend of Adelaide Procter, gone before." Jane was buried at Ecclefechan Churchyard (Ecclefechan, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway DG11), alongside her husband.
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Born: January 14, 1801, Haddington, United Kingdom
Died: April 21, 1866, Haddington, United Kingdom
Spouse: Thomas Carlyle (m. 1826–1866)
Lived: Carlyle’s House, 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London SW3 5HL, UK (51.48427, -0.16994)
Craigenputtock, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway DG2, UK (55.12019, -3.92846)
Buried: Ecclefechan Churchyard, Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
A revealing private homosexual document of the 19th century is the ardent correspondence of popular novelist Geraldine Jewsbury with Jane Welsh Carlyle, which lasted from 1841, shortly after they met, until Mrs. Carlyle's death in 1866. (A selection of these letters from 1841 to 1852 was published in 1892; Jewsbury destroyed all of Mrs. Carlyle's letters to her on her deathbed.) Apparently bisexual (she had similarly passionate correspondences with two men), Jewsbury speaks to Mrs. Carlyle in intense, and knowing, romantic terms--for example, on October 29, 1841, she declares, "I love you, my darling, more than I can express, more than I am conscious of myself. . . . I feel towards you much more like a lover than a female friend!" Jane married essayist Thomas Carlyle but the marriage was often unhappy. Thomas was devoted to Lady Harriet Mary Montagu, eldest daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, who was married to Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton. When Lady Harriet died, Lord Ashburton married Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, who was Jane’s friend and who subsequently, after her husband’s death in 1864, had an intimate relationship with the sculptor Harriet Hosmer.
They met in 1841 and remained friends until Carlyle’s death in 1866: 25 years.
Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (August 22, 1812 – September 23, 1880)
Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (January 14, 1801 – April 21, 1866)
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The XIX century four-storey home of Thomas Carlyle is now a Victorian time capsule of furniture and relics.
Address: 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London SW3 5HL, UK (51.48427, -0.16994)
Type: Museum (open to public)
English Heritage Building ID: 203648 (Grade II, 1954)
Place
Carlyle’s House, in the district of Chelsea, in central London, was the home acquired by the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, after having lived at Craigenputtock in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Jane Welsh Carlyle was a prominent woman of letters, for nearly half a century. The building dates from 1708 and is at No. 24 Cheyne Row (No. 5 at Carlyle’s time); the house is now owned by the National Trust. The house is a typical Georgian terraced house, a modestly comfortable home where the Carlyles lived with one servant and Jane’s dog, Nero. The house was opened to the public in 1895, just fourteen years after Carlyle’s death. It is preserved very much as it was when the Carlyles lived there despite another resident moving in after them with her scores of cats and dogs. It is a good example of a middle class Victorian home due to the efforts of devotees tracking down much of the original furniture owned by the Carlyles. It contains some of the Carlyles’ books (many on permanent loan from the London Library, which was established by Carlyle), pictures and personal possessions, together with collections of portraits by artist such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Helen Allingham and memorabilia assembled by their admirers. The house is made up of four floors — a basement which houses the kitchen, the ground floor which was the Carlyles’ parlour, the first floor where the drawing room/library and Jane’s bedroom are found, the second floor which was Thomas’ bedroom and is now the Custodian’s residence, and the attic, which was converted into a study in an attempt to remove Carlyle from the constant noise of the street and neighbours. It has a small walled garden which is preserved much as it was when Thomas and Jane lived there — the fig tree still produces fruit today. Theatre producer Stanford Holme became curator of the house and moved there with his wife, the actress Thea Holme in 1959. She took up writing, beginning with a book about the lives of Thomas and Jane Carlyle at the house, “The Carlyles at Home” (1965.)
Life
Who: Jane Welsh Carlyle, née Jane Baillie Welsh (January 14, 1801 – April 21, 1866)
Jane Welsh Carlyle had a long lasting relationship (1840-1866) with fellow writer Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880.) The two women first met when Thomas invited Geraldine to Cheyne Row, where Thomas and Jane lived. Geraldine had written to Thomas prior to the invitation admiring his work and also expressing her religious doubt. Geraldine was going through a depressive time, but she also contacted Thomas in the hopes of entering the literary realm in England. When Geraldine and Jane met, their friendship turned out to be more of a romantic relationship. It is evident both women had feelings for each other, but there is no evidence of them being lesbian lovers. Jane always remained dutiful to her husband and neither had acted upon any romantic feelings. This caused a lot of jealousy between the two women as Jane always remained married to Thomas and Geraldine had lovers of her own. However, they both had passionate feelings towards one another and that passion is expressed in their many letters to one another. When Charlotte Saunders Cushman made England her home for several years, she became friends with Geraldine Jewsbury, who is said to have based a character on Cushman in her 1848 novel “The Half Sisters.”
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Craigenputtock is the craig/whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks.) It is a 800-acre (3.2 km2) upland farming estate in the civil parish of Dunscore in Dumfriesshire, within the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway.
Address: Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway DG2, UK (55.12019, -3.92846)
Type: Private Property
Historic Scotland Building ID: 4250 (Grade B, 1971)
Place
Craigenputtock was the property for generations, since ca XVI century of the family Welsh, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle, descended on the paternal side from Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of John Knox, which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828. It was once the residence of the well-known writer Thomas Carlyle, who wrote many famous works there. It comprises the principal residence – a two-storey, 4 bedroomed Georgian Country House, 2 cottages and a farmstead, 315 acres (127 ha) of moorland hill rising to 1,000 ft (300 m) above sea level, 350 acres (140 ha) of inbye ground of which 40 acres (16 ha) is arable/ploughable and 135 acres (55 ha) of woodland/forestry. The Carlyles remained at Craigenputtock for seven years (before moving to Carlyle’s House in Cheyne Row, London), where "Sartor Resartus" was written. The property was bequeathed by Thomas Carlyle to the Edinburgh University on his death in 1881. It is now home to the Carter-Campbell family, and managed by the C.C.C. (Carlyle Craigenputtock Circle.)
Life
Who: Jane Welsh Carlyle, née Jane Baillie Welsh (January 14, 1801 – April 21, 1866)
Jane Welsh Carlyle was the wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle and has been cited as the reason for his fame and fortune. She was most notable as a letter-writer. Jane had been introduced to Carlyle by her tutor Edward Irving, with whom she came to have a mutual romantic (although not sexually intimate) attraction. The couple married in 1826 and for the first seven years lived on the farm in Scotland; the marriage was often unhappy. Jane was also jealous of a friendship her husband had with Lady Harriet Mary Montagu, eldest daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, who was married to Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton. When Lady Harriet died, Lord Ashburton married Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie, who was Jane’s friend and who, subsequently, after her husband’s death in 1864, had an intimate relationship with the sculptor Harriet Hosmer. Harriet Hosmer was also a lover of Matilda Hays, former companion of Charlotte Saunders Cushman and later partner of Adelaide Anne Procter, poet and philanthropist. Although Adelaide Procter had died 30 years before Hays, the Liverpool Echo obituary stated that she had been "the dear friend of Adelaide Procter, gone before." Jane was buried at Ecclefechan Churchyard (Ecclefechan, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway DG11), alongside her husband.
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James Arthur Williams (December 11, 1930 – January 14, 1990)
James Arthur "Jim" Williams was the only person in the state of Georgia ever to be tried four times for the same crime.
Born: December 11, 1930, Gordon, Georgia, United States
Died: January 14, 1990, Savannah, Georgia, United States
Buried: Ramah Baptist Church Cemetery, Gordon, Wilkinson County, Georgia, USA, Plot: Next to mother, Blanche Brooks Williams
Siblings: Dorothy Williams Kingery
Lived: Mercer House, 421-425 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401, USA (32.07125, -81.0954)
541, 543 and 545 East Congress Street
Hampton Lillibridge House, 507 E Saint Julian Street, Savannah, GA 31401
Habersham's Pink House, 23 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401
Armstrong House, 447 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401
The Mercer House, now called the Mercer-Williams House Museum, is located at 429 Bull Street and stands at the southwest end of Monterey Square, in Savannah, Georgia.
Address: 421-425 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401, USA (32.07125, -81.0954)
Type: Museum (open to public)
Place
Design by John S. Norris (1804-1876)
The house was the scene of the shooting death of Jim Williams' assistant, Danny Lewis Hansford, a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” The house is currently owned by Dorothy Kingery, Williams' sister, and is open to the public for tours. Designed for General Hugh Weedon Mercer (great-grandfather of the songwriter Johnny Mercer) construction of the house began in 1860. Interrupted by the American Civil War, it was finally completed around 1868 by the new owner, John Wilder. For a period in the XX century, the building was used as the Savannah Shriners Alee Temple. It then lay vacant for a decade until in 1969 when Jim Williams, one of Savannah’s earliest and most dedicated private restorationists, bought the house and restored it. Before Hansford's death, the house had already been the scene of two deaths. In 1913 a previous owner tripped over the second floor banister, fractured his hip, and suffered a concussion, dying three days later. In 1969, a boy chasing pigeons on the roof fell over the edge and impaled himself on the iron fence below.
Life
Who: James Arthur "Jim" Williams (December 11, 1930 – January 14, 1990)
James Arthur Williams was the only person in the state of Georgia ever to be tried four times for the same crime. Following the May 2, 1981 shooting death of assistant Danny Lewis Hansford in his Savannah home, Mercer House, Williams was charged with murder and tried four times. He was found not guilty at the final trial. Born in Gordon, Georgia, Williams was a noted Savannah, Georgia antiques dealer and historic preservationist who played an active role in the preservation of Savannah's historic district. In 1955, at the age of 24, he bought and restored his first three houses located at 541, 543 and 545 East Congress Street. Over the next 35 years, he would restore more than 50 homes in Savannah as well as the lowcountry of Georgia and South Carolina. Notable Savannah houses he restored include: Odingsell House, Merault House, Hampton Lillibridge House (507 E Saint Julian Street, Savannah, GA 31401), Habersham's Pink House (23 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401), Armstrong House (447 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401) and Mercer House. At the time of the purchase, the Mercer House had been vacant for almost a decade since its former occupants, the Shriners organization, had used the building for their Alee Temple. Over the course of two years, Williams painstakingly restored the house. After the restoration, it became his personal residence and he ran his antiques restoration business out of the carriage house located behind the mansion. Williams died in 1990 and is buried at Ramah First Baptist Church (502 Ramah Dr, Palmetto, GA 30268), next to his mother, Blanche Brooks Williams. Danny Lewis "Billy Hanson" Hansford was Savannah's most popular male escort of the late 1970's and early '80's. Hansford, famed for his muscular build by both male and female clients, was often seen in his "trademark" white t-shirt and jeans. At the time of his death he was 21 years old. He is buried at Greenwich Cemetery (330 Greenwich Rd, Savannah, GA 31404).
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Born: December 11, 1930, Gordon, Georgia, United States
Died: January 14, 1990, Savannah, Georgia, United States
Buried: Ramah Baptist Church Cemetery, Gordon, Wilkinson County, Georgia, USA, Plot: Next to mother, Blanche Brooks Williams
Siblings: Dorothy Williams Kingery
Lived: Mercer House, 421-425 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401, USA (32.07125, -81.0954)
541, 543 and 545 East Congress Street
Hampton Lillibridge House, 507 E Saint Julian Street, Savannah, GA 31401
Habersham's Pink House, 23 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401
Armstrong House, 447 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401
The Mercer House, now called the Mercer-Williams House Museum, is located at 429 Bull Street and stands at the southwest end of Monterey Square, in Savannah, Georgia.
Address: 421-425 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401, USA (32.07125, -81.0954)
Type: Museum (open to public)
Place
Design by John S. Norris (1804-1876)
The house was the scene of the shooting death of Jim Williams' assistant, Danny Lewis Hansford, a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” The house is currently owned by Dorothy Kingery, Williams' sister, and is open to the public for tours. Designed for General Hugh Weedon Mercer (great-grandfather of the songwriter Johnny Mercer) construction of the house began in 1860. Interrupted by the American Civil War, it was finally completed around 1868 by the new owner, John Wilder. For a period in the XX century, the building was used as the Savannah Shriners Alee Temple. It then lay vacant for a decade until in 1969 when Jim Williams, one of Savannah’s earliest and most dedicated private restorationists, bought the house and restored it. Before Hansford's death, the house had already been the scene of two deaths. In 1913 a previous owner tripped over the second floor banister, fractured his hip, and suffered a concussion, dying three days later. In 1969, a boy chasing pigeons on the roof fell over the edge and impaled himself on the iron fence below.
Life
Who: James Arthur "Jim" Williams (December 11, 1930 – January 14, 1990)
James Arthur Williams was the only person in the state of Georgia ever to be tried four times for the same crime. Following the May 2, 1981 shooting death of assistant Danny Lewis Hansford in his Savannah home, Mercer House, Williams was charged with murder and tried four times. He was found not guilty at the final trial. Born in Gordon, Georgia, Williams was a noted Savannah, Georgia antiques dealer and historic preservationist who played an active role in the preservation of Savannah's historic district. In 1955, at the age of 24, he bought and restored his first three houses located at 541, 543 and 545 East Congress Street. Over the next 35 years, he would restore more than 50 homes in Savannah as well as the lowcountry of Georgia and South Carolina. Notable Savannah houses he restored include: Odingsell House, Merault House, Hampton Lillibridge House (507 E Saint Julian Street, Savannah, GA 31401), Habersham's Pink House (23 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401), Armstrong House (447 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401) and Mercer House. At the time of the purchase, the Mercer House had been vacant for almost a decade since its former occupants, the Shriners organization, had used the building for their Alee Temple. Over the course of two years, Williams painstakingly restored the house. After the restoration, it became his personal residence and he ran his antiques restoration business out of the carriage house located behind the mansion. Williams died in 1990 and is buried at Ramah First Baptist Church (502 Ramah Dr, Palmetto, GA 30268), next to his mother, Blanche Brooks Williams. Danny Lewis "Billy Hanson" Hansford was Savannah's most popular male escort of the late 1970's and early '80's. Hansford, famed for his muscular build by both male and female clients, was often seen in his "trademark" white t-shirt and jeans. At the time of his death he was 21 years old. He is buried at Greenwich Cemetery (330 Greenwich Rd, Savannah, GA 31404).
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Harry Stack Sullivan (February 21, 1892 - January 14, 1949)
Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan was an American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that the personality lives in, and has his or her being in, a complex of interpersonal relations.
Born: February 21, 1892, Norwich, New York, United States
Died: January 14, 1949, Paris, France
Education: Cornell University
Organization founded: William Alanson White Institute
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA, Plot: Section 11, Lot 753 SH
At Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, VA 22211), is buried John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963). In the same cemetery is buried Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949). An American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that the personality lives in, and has his or her being in, a complex of interpersonal relations. Having studied therapists Sigmund Freud, Adolf Meyer, and William Alanson White, he devoted years of clinical and research work to helping people with psychotic illness. Beginning in 1927, Sullivan had a 22-year relationship with James Inscoe Sullivan, known as "Jimmie", 20 years his junior. In 1927, he reviewed the controversial anonymously published “The Invert and his Social Adjustment” and in 1929 called it "a remarkable document by a homosexual man of refinement; intended primarily as a guide to the unfortunate sufferers of sexual inversion, and much less open to criticism than anything else of the kind so far published." In 1940, he and colleague Winfred Overholser, serving on the American Psychiatric Society's committee on Military Mobilization, formulated guidelines for the psychological screening of inductees to the United States military. He believed, writes one historian, "that sexuality played a minimal role in causing mental disorders and that adult homosexuals should be accepted and left alone." Despite his best efforts, others included homosexuality as a disqualification for military service.
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Born: February 21, 1892, Norwich, New York, United States
Died: January 14, 1949, Paris, France
Education: Cornell University
Organization founded: William Alanson White Institute
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA, Plot: Section 11, Lot 753 SH
At Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, VA 22211), is buried John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963). In the same cemetery is buried Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949). An American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that the personality lives in, and has his or her being in, a complex of interpersonal relations. Having studied therapists Sigmund Freud, Adolf Meyer, and William Alanson White, he devoted years of clinical and research work to helping people with psychotic illness. Beginning in 1927, Sullivan had a 22-year relationship with James Inscoe Sullivan, known as "Jimmie", 20 years his junior. In 1927, he reviewed the controversial anonymously published “The Invert and his Social Adjustment” and in 1929 called it "a remarkable document by a homosexual man of refinement; intended primarily as a guide to the unfortunate sufferers of sexual inversion, and much less open to criticism than anything else of the kind so far published." In 1940, he and colleague Winfred Overholser, serving on the American Psychiatric Society's committee on Military Mobilization, formulated guidelines for the psychological screening of inductees to the United States military. He believed, writes one historian, "that sexuality played a minimal role in causing mental disorders and that adult homosexuals should be accepted and left alone." Despite his best efforts, others included homosexuality as a disqualification for military service.
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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