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January 11, 2017
Henry Gauthier-Villars (August 8, 1859 - January 12, 1931)
Henry Gauthier-Villars or Willy, his nom-de-plume, was a French fin-de-siecle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette.
Born: August 8, 1859, Villiers-sur-Orge, France
Died: January 12, 1931, Paris, France
Spouse: Colette (m. 1893–1910)
Parents: Jean-Albert Gauthier-Villars
Buried: Montparnasse
Henry Gauthier-Villars or Willy was a French fin-de-siecle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. In 1889, he met Colette, 14 years younger than he was; they married on May 15, 1893. Colette soon learned that Willy had other affairs, and she met his mistress Charlotte Kinceler, who later became her friend. Willy and Colette had an affair unbeknownst to each other with the same woman, the American socialite Georgie Raoul-Duval, née Urquhart. Upon discovery, they made it a threesome and attended the Bayreuth festival together. In 1906, Colette left the unfaithful Gauthier-Villars, living for a time at the home of the American writer and salonist Natalie Clifford Barney. The two had a short affair, and remained friends until Colette's death. The marriage of Willy and Colette lasted until 1910, although in the years prior they were already separated. Colette went to work in the music halls of Paris, under the wing of Missy de Morny, Marquise de Belbeuf, with whom she became romantically involved. She also was involved in a heterosexual relationship during this time, with the Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio. According to one writer, Colette "never gave Missy as much love" and took "advantage of her and more or less appropriating Rozven, a Brittany villa, from her after they split up." Another affair during this period was with the automobile-empire scion Auguste Heriot.
Together from 1893 to 1906: 13 years.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (January 28, 1873 – August 3, 1954)
Henry Gauthier-Villars aka Willy (August 8, 1859 - January 12, 1931)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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Tree-lined graveyard with the resting places of writers & artists including Sartre & Beckett.
Address: 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet, 75014 Paris, France (48.83791, 2.32762)
Type: Cemetery (open to public)
Hours: Monday through Friday 8.00-18.00, Saturday 8.30-18.00, Sunday 9.00-18.00
Phone: +33 1 44 10 86 50
Place
Montparnasse Cemetery is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city’s 14th arrondissement. Created from three farms in 1824, the cemetery at Montparnasse was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud (Southern Cemetery.)
Notable queer burials at Montparnasse:
• Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808-1889) was a French novelist and short story writer. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Henry James and Marcel Proust. When accused of sodomitical practices, D’Aurevilly reply was: “My tastes incline me to it, my principles permit it, but the ugliness of my contemporaries repels me.” He was transferred in 1926 to St Sauveur, le vicomte's cemetery, in Normandy.
• Marie Dorval (1798–1849), actress. In January 1833, female writer George Sand met Marie Dorval after the former wrote the actress a letter of appreciation following one of her performances. The two women became involved in an intimate friendship, and were rumored to have become lesbian lovers.
• Henry “Willy” Gauthier-Villars (1859–1931), writer and first husband of Colette. Willy and Colette had an affair unbeknownst to each other with the same woman, the American socialite Georgie Raoul-Duval, née Urquhart. Upon discovery, they made it a threesome and attended the Bayreuth festival together.
• Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), author. Huysmans’ novel “À rebours” (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884) became his most famous, or notorious. It featured the character of an aesthete, des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism. It was seen as an example of "decadent" literature. The description of des Esseintes’ "alluring liaison" with a "cherry-lipped youth" was believed to have influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde. It is now considered an important step in the formation of "gay literature.” “À rebours” gained notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895. The prosecutor referred to it as a "sodomitical" book.
• Josie Mansfield (1847-1931), an American woman who became famous when one of her two wealthy lovers murdered the other. In 1873, Mansfield left New York for Paris with Ella Wesner, a male impersonator in Vaudeville. Mansfield and Wesner went to Paris and presided over a salon at the Café Américan. Wesner returned to the United States alone in the spring of 1873.
• Charles, Vicomte de Noailles (1891-1981) and his wife Marie-Laure (1902-1970), heiress of the Bischoffsheim banking fortune, are buried in the Bischoffsheim vault.
• Man Ray (1890–1976), American-born Dada & Surrealist artist and photographer
• Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933– December 28, 2004), American author & philosopher. Sontag lived with “H,” the writer and model Harriet Sohmers Zwerling whom she first met at U. C. Berkeley from 1958 to 1959. Afterwards, Sontag was the partner of María Irene Fornés, a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director. Upon splitting with Fornes, she was involved with an Italian aristocrat, Carlotta Del Pezzo, and the German academic Eva Kollisch. Sontag was romantically involved with the American artists Jasper Johns and Paul Thek. During the early 1970s, Sontag lived with Nicole Stéphane, a Rothschild banking heiress turned movie actress, and, later, the choreographer Lucinda Childs. She also had a relationship with the writer Joseph Brodsky. With Annie Leibovitz, Sontag maintained a relationship stretching from the later 1980s until her final years.
Queer Places, Vol. 3 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906695
ISBN-10: 1532906692
Release Date: July 24, 2016
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228901
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Born: August 8, 1859, Villiers-sur-Orge, France
Died: January 12, 1931, Paris, France
Spouse: Colette (m. 1893–1910)
Parents: Jean-Albert Gauthier-Villars
Buried: Montparnasse
Henry Gauthier-Villars or Willy was a French fin-de-siecle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. In 1889, he met Colette, 14 years younger than he was; they married on May 15, 1893. Colette soon learned that Willy had other affairs, and she met his mistress Charlotte Kinceler, who later became her friend. Willy and Colette had an affair unbeknownst to each other with the same woman, the American socialite Georgie Raoul-Duval, née Urquhart. Upon discovery, they made it a threesome and attended the Bayreuth festival together. In 1906, Colette left the unfaithful Gauthier-Villars, living for a time at the home of the American writer and salonist Natalie Clifford Barney. The two had a short affair, and remained friends until Colette's death. The marriage of Willy and Colette lasted until 1910, although in the years prior they were already separated. Colette went to work in the music halls of Paris, under the wing of Missy de Morny, Marquise de Belbeuf, with whom she became romantically involved. She also was involved in a heterosexual relationship during this time, with the Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio. According to one writer, Colette "never gave Missy as much love" and took "advantage of her and more or less appropriating Rozven, a Brittany villa, from her after they split up." Another affair during this period was with the automobile-empire scion Auguste Heriot.
Together from 1893 to 1906: 13 years.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (January 28, 1873 – August 3, 1954)
Henry Gauthier-Villars aka Willy (August 8, 1859 - January 12, 1931)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/4910282
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500563323/?...
Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MZG0VHY/?...
Tree-lined graveyard with the resting places of writers & artists including Sartre & Beckett.
Address: 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet, 75014 Paris, France (48.83791, 2.32762)
Type: Cemetery (open to public)
Hours: Monday through Friday 8.00-18.00, Saturday 8.30-18.00, Sunday 9.00-18.00
Phone: +33 1 44 10 86 50
Place
Montparnasse Cemetery is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city’s 14th arrondissement. Created from three farms in 1824, the cemetery at Montparnasse was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud (Southern Cemetery.)
Notable queer burials at Montparnasse:
• Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808-1889) was a French novelist and short story writer. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Henry James and Marcel Proust. When accused of sodomitical practices, D’Aurevilly reply was: “My tastes incline me to it, my principles permit it, but the ugliness of my contemporaries repels me.” He was transferred in 1926 to St Sauveur, le vicomte's cemetery, in Normandy.
• Marie Dorval (1798–1849), actress. In January 1833, female writer George Sand met Marie Dorval after the former wrote the actress a letter of appreciation following one of her performances. The two women became involved in an intimate friendship, and were rumored to have become lesbian lovers.
• Henry “Willy” Gauthier-Villars (1859–1931), writer and first husband of Colette. Willy and Colette had an affair unbeknownst to each other with the same woman, the American socialite Georgie Raoul-Duval, née Urquhart. Upon discovery, they made it a threesome and attended the Bayreuth festival together.
• Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), author. Huysmans’ novel “À rebours” (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884) became his most famous, or notorious. It featured the character of an aesthete, des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism. It was seen as an example of "decadent" literature. The description of des Esseintes’ "alluring liaison" with a "cherry-lipped youth" was believed to have influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde. It is now considered an important step in the formation of "gay literature.” “À rebours” gained notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895. The prosecutor referred to it as a "sodomitical" book.
• Josie Mansfield (1847-1931), an American woman who became famous when one of her two wealthy lovers murdered the other. In 1873, Mansfield left New York for Paris with Ella Wesner, a male impersonator in Vaudeville. Mansfield and Wesner went to Paris and presided over a salon at the Café Américan. Wesner returned to the United States alone in the spring of 1873.
• Charles, Vicomte de Noailles (1891-1981) and his wife Marie-Laure (1902-1970), heiress of the Bischoffsheim banking fortune, are buried in the Bischoffsheim vault.
• Man Ray (1890–1976), American-born Dada & Surrealist artist and photographer
• Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933– December 28, 2004), American author & philosopher. Sontag lived with “H,” the writer and model Harriet Sohmers Zwerling whom she first met at U. C. Berkeley from 1958 to 1959. Afterwards, Sontag was the partner of María Irene Fornés, a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director. Upon splitting with Fornes, she was involved with an Italian aristocrat, Carlotta Del Pezzo, and the German academic Eva Kollisch. Sontag was romantically involved with the American artists Jasper Johns and Paul Thek. During the early 1970s, Sontag lived with Nicole Stéphane, a Rothschild banking heiress turned movie actress, and, later, the choreographer Lucinda Childs. She also had a relationship with the writer Joseph Brodsky. With Annie Leibovitz, Sontag maintained a relationship stretching from the later 1980s until her final years.
Queer Places, Vol. 3 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906695
ISBN-10: 1532906692
Release Date: July 24, 2016
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228901
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532906692/?...
Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IZXI10E/?...
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Grace Frick (January 12, 1903 – November, 1979)
Died: 1979
People also search for: Marguerite Yourcenar, more
Lived: 549 Prospect Ave, Hartford, CT 06105, USA (41.76378, -72.71623)
Petite Plaisance, 35 S Shore Rd, Northeast Harbor, ME 04662, USA (44.28888, -68.28585)
Studied: Wellesley College
Buried: Brookside Cemetery, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Buried alongside: Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar (born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour to Michel Cleenewerck de Crayencour, of French bourgeois descent, and a Belgian mother, Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, of Belgian nobility) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. In 1939 literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited the writer to the United States to escape the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Frick was a graduate of Wellesley College and did her postgraduate work at Yale. She taught at Stephens College, Columbus, at Barnard College. Yourcenar lectured in comparative literature in New York City and Sarah Lawrence College. Yourcenar was bisexual and she and Frick became lovers in 1937, and would remain so until Frick's death in 1979. After ten years spent in Hartford, they bought a house together in Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine and lived there for decades. They are both buried at Brookside Cemetery, Mount Desert, Maine.
Together from 1937 to 1979: 42 years.
Grace Frick (1903-1979)
Marguerite Yourcenar (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/4910282
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500563323/?...
Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MZG0VHY/?...
Marguerite Yourcenar arrived in Hartford in 1939. WWII was breaking out in Europe, but Yourcenar had chosen life in America with Grace Frick, a Wellesley graduate she had met in Paris in 1934 and fallen in love with “head over heels.” Shortly after Yourcenar arrived in the United States, Frick got a job as academic dean of Hartford Junior College, now Hartford College for Women. They rented a house at 549 Prospect Ave.
Address: 549 Prospect Ave, Hartford, CT 06105, USA (41.76378, -72.71623)
Type: Private Property
National Register of Historic Places: West End South Historic District (Roughly bounded by Farmington Ave., Whitney and S. Whitney Sts., West Blvd. and Prospect Ave.), 85000763, 1985
Place
Marguerite Yourcenar’s French biographer, Josyane Savigneau, calls Hartford “a rather uninteresting city about a hundred miles from New York.” Yourcenar herself called it “reactionary, chauvinist and Protestant, with a hint of worldliness.” In Savigneau’s book, there are photos of Frick and Yourcenar leaning out of a window of the Prospect Avenue house, “photographs of love, the sort of childish demonstrations of happiness one can’t resist when in the thrall of a passion.” During her decade in Hartford, Yourcenar fell in with one major representative of the avant-garde in town: A. Everett “Chick” Austin Jr., who had turned the Wadsworth Atheneum from a stodgy small-city museum into a cultural movement. Austin was commissioning a theatrical-dance work based on the four elements -- earth, air, fire, water -- and for “Water,” Yourcenar wrote a piece based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Little Mermaid.” “Chick danced in every one,” says Eugene R. Gaddis, the Atheneum’s archivist and Austin’s biographer. Yourcenar blamed herself for suggesting in 1945 that Austin stage the Elizabethan play “Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” “a story of an incestuous young couple, a brother and sister, who brave all sorts of slander to their love.” Reactionary Hartford was not amused, and gave Austin the boot. She wrote the work for which she is best known in America, “Memoirs of Hadrian,” while she lived in Hartford in the 1940s. The novel is in the form of a series of letters from the Roman emperor, on the eve of his death, to his successor. She wrote numerous other novels and short stories, plays and essays, and translated Virginia Woolf, Henry James and African American spirituals into French. Gaddis interviewed Yourcenar at her book-filled home in Maine in 1982, three years after Frick’s death and two years after Yourcenar had become the first woman elected to the French Academy. “Chick Austin was air and fire,” she recalled. She made Gaddis an omelet with vegetables from her kitchen garden and then asked him, in a thick French accent, “Eugene, will you go to the refrigerator and get us a couple of Budweisers?” She died in 1989.
Life
Who: Marguerite Yourcenar (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987) and Grace Frick (1903-1979)
Marguerite Yourcenar and Grace Frick lived in Hartford, to be near Grace’s work, first at Hartford Junior College, then at Connecticut College. Soon Yourcenar, too, began teaching, commuting to Sarah Lawrence, just outside New York City, where she gave courses in French and Italian.
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
Release Date: July 24, 2016
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228297
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532901909/?...
Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IZ1BU9K/?...
After ten years spent in Hartford, Grace Frick and Marguerite Yourcenar bought a house together in Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine and lived there for decades.
Address: 35 S Shore Rd, Northeast Harbor, ME 04662, USA (44.28888, -68.28585)
Type: Museum (open to public)
Phone:+1 207-276-3940
Place
You can wander behind the modest house of the late novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, Petite Plaisance, and through the Japanese garden to the little headstone of her dog, inscribed, "A gentle heart in a small body." At the turn of the XX century, Bar Harbor, the onetime fishing village on the eastern coast of Mount Desert Island, was Maine’s premier resort—a glamorous enclave of regal cottages and lavish entertainments for the few and the wealthy. They ran it like a country club until the great fire of 1947 destroyed everything. As the upper crust migrated 10 miles south, to Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, what rose from the rubble was a noisy, lively resort on the move. Northeast Harbor is a village on Mount Desert Island, located in the town of Mount Desert in Hancock County, Maine. The village has a significant summer population, and has long been a quiet enclave of the rich and famous. Summer residents include the Rockefeller family, as well as the late Brooke Astor and Barbara Bel Geddes. The village was at a time so popular as a summer resort among Philadelphians that it was sometimes known as "Philadelphia on the rocks.” Northeast Harbor is the home of Morris Yacht Brokerage. The village is home to the Asticou Azalea Garden.
Life
Who: Marguerite Yourcenar (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987) and Grace Frick (1903-1979)
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3. In 1939 Yourcenar’s intimate companion at the time, the literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited the writer to the United States to escape the outbreak of WWII in Europe. Yourcenar lectured in comparative literature in New York City and Sarah Lawrence College. Yourcenar was bisexual; she and Frick became lovers in 1937 and remained together until Frick’s death in 1979. They are buried side by side across the sound in Somesville at Brookside Cemetery (Mt Desert, ME 04660). Yourcenar’s house on Mount Desert Island, Petite Plaisance, is now a museum dedicated to her memory.
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
Release Date: July 24, 2016
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228297
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532901909/?...
Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IZ1BU9K/?...
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People also search for: Marguerite Yourcenar, more
Lived: 549 Prospect Ave, Hartford, CT 06105, USA (41.76378, -72.71623)
Petite Plaisance, 35 S Shore Rd, Northeast Harbor, ME 04662, USA (44.28888, -68.28585)
Studied: Wellesley College
Buried: Brookside Cemetery, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Buried alongside: Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar (born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour to Michel Cleenewerck de Crayencour, of French bourgeois descent, and a Belgian mother, Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, of Belgian nobility) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. In 1939 literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited the writer to the United States to escape the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Frick was a graduate of Wellesley College and did her postgraduate work at Yale. She taught at Stephens College, Columbus, at Barnard College. Yourcenar lectured in comparative literature in New York City and Sarah Lawrence College. Yourcenar was bisexual and she and Frick became lovers in 1937, and would remain so until Frick's death in 1979. After ten years spent in Hartford, they bought a house together in Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine and lived there for decades. They are both buried at Brookside Cemetery, Mount Desert, Maine.
Together from 1937 to 1979: 42 years.
Grace Frick (1903-1979)
Marguerite Yourcenar (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/4910282
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500563323/?...
Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MZG0VHY/?...
Marguerite Yourcenar arrived in Hartford in 1939. WWII was breaking out in Europe, but Yourcenar had chosen life in America with Grace Frick, a Wellesley graduate she had met in Paris in 1934 and fallen in love with “head over heels.” Shortly after Yourcenar arrived in the United States, Frick got a job as academic dean of Hartford Junior College, now Hartford College for Women. They rented a house at 549 Prospect Ave.
Address: 549 Prospect Ave, Hartford, CT 06105, USA (41.76378, -72.71623)
Type: Private Property
National Register of Historic Places: West End South Historic District (Roughly bounded by Farmington Ave., Whitney and S. Whitney Sts., West Blvd. and Prospect Ave.), 85000763, 1985
Place
Marguerite Yourcenar’s French biographer, Josyane Savigneau, calls Hartford “a rather uninteresting city about a hundred miles from New York.” Yourcenar herself called it “reactionary, chauvinist and Protestant, with a hint of worldliness.” In Savigneau’s book, there are photos of Frick and Yourcenar leaning out of a window of the Prospect Avenue house, “photographs of love, the sort of childish demonstrations of happiness one can’t resist when in the thrall of a passion.” During her decade in Hartford, Yourcenar fell in with one major representative of the avant-garde in town: A. Everett “Chick” Austin Jr., who had turned the Wadsworth Atheneum from a stodgy small-city museum into a cultural movement. Austin was commissioning a theatrical-dance work based on the four elements -- earth, air, fire, water -- and for “Water,” Yourcenar wrote a piece based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Little Mermaid.” “Chick danced in every one,” says Eugene R. Gaddis, the Atheneum’s archivist and Austin’s biographer. Yourcenar blamed herself for suggesting in 1945 that Austin stage the Elizabethan play “Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” “a story of an incestuous young couple, a brother and sister, who brave all sorts of slander to their love.” Reactionary Hartford was not amused, and gave Austin the boot. She wrote the work for which she is best known in America, “Memoirs of Hadrian,” while she lived in Hartford in the 1940s. The novel is in the form of a series of letters from the Roman emperor, on the eve of his death, to his successor. She wrote numerous other novels and short stories, plays and essays, and translated Virginia Woolf, Henry James and African American spirituals into French. Gaddis interviewed Yourcenar at her book-filled home in Maine in 1982, three years after Frick’s death and two years after Yourcenar had become the first woman elected to the French Academy. “Chick Austin was air and fire,” she recalled. She made Gaddis an omelet with vegetables from her kitchen garden and then asked him, in a thick French accent, “Eugene, will you go to the refrigerator and get us a couple of Budweisers?” She died in 1989.
Life
Who: Marguerite Yourcenar (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987) and Grace Frick (1903-1979)
Marguerite Yourcenar and Grace Frick lived in Hartford, to be near Grace’s work, first at Hartford Junior College, then at Connecticut College. Soon Yourcenar, too, began teaching, commuting to Sarah Lawrence, just outside New York City, where she gave courses in French and Italian.
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
Release Date: July 24, 2016
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228297
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532901909/?...
Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IZ1BU9K/?...
After ten years spent in Hartford, Grace Frick and Marguerite Yourcenar bought a house together in Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine and lived there for decades.
Address: 35 S Shore Rd, Northeast Harbor, ME 04662, USA (44.28888, -68.28585)
Type: Museum (open to public)
Phone:+1 207-276-3940
Place
You can wander behind the modest house of the late novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, Petite Plaisance, and through the Japanese garden to the little headstone of her dog, inscribed, "A gentle heart in a small body." At the turn of the XX century, Bar Harbor, the onetime fishing village on the eastern coast of Mount Desert Island, was Maine’s premier resort—a glamorous enclave of regal cottages and lavish entertainments for the few and the wealthy. They ran it like a country club until the great fire of 1947 destroyed everything. As the upper crust migrated 10 miles south, to Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, what rose from the rubble was a noisy, lively resort on the move. Northeast Harbor is a village on Mount Desert Island, located in the town of Mount Desert in Hancock County, Maine. The village has a significant summer population, and has long been a quiet enclave of the rich and famous. Summer residents include the Rockefeller family, as well as the late Brooke Astor and Barbara Bel Geddes. The village was at a time so popular as a summer resort among Philadelphians that it was sometimes known as "Philadelphia on the rocks.” Northeast Harbor is the home of Morris Yacht Brokerage. The village is home to the Asticou Azalea Garden.
Life
Who: Marguerite Yourcenar (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987) and Grace Frick (1903-1979)
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3. In 1939 Yourcenar’s intimate companion at the time, the literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited the writer to the United States to escape the outbreak of WWII in Europe. Yourcenar lectured in comparative literature in New York City and Sarah Lawrence College. Yourcenar was bisexual; she and Frick became lovers in 1937 and remained together until Frick’s death in 1979. They are buried side by side across the sound in Somesville at Brookside Cemetery (Mt Desert, ME 04660). Yourcenar’s house on Mount Desert Island, Petite Plaisance, is now a museum dedicated to her memory.
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
Release Date: July 24, 2016
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228297
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532901909/?...
Amazon (kindle): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IZ1BU9K/?...
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Edith Emma Cooper (January 12, 1862 - December 13, 1913)
Lived: 61-63 Petersham Rd, Richmond, Greater London TW10 6UT, UK (51.45518, -0.30333)
Buried: St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake High Street, Across the road from the river, Mortlake, London, SW14 8JA
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper. As Field, they wrote around 40 works together and a long journal Works and Days. Their intention was to keep the pen name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend Robert Browning. Bradley published first under the pseudonym Arran Leigh, a nod to Elizabeth Barrett. Edith adopted the name Isla Leigh. From the late 1870s, when Edith was at University College, Bristol, they agreed to live together and were, over the next 40 years, lovers and co-authors. They had financial independence: Bradley's father, Charles Bradley, had been in the tobacco industry in Birmingham. They developed a large circle of literary friends; in particular, painters and life partners Charles de Sousy Ricketts and Charles Hazelwood Shannon, near whom they settled in Richmond, London. They also were passionately devoted to their pets, in particular a dog named Whym Chow, for whom they wrote a book of poems named after him. This continued a tradition of lesbian couples forming families that included beloved animals. They wrote each other: “My love and I took hands and swore / against the world to be / Poets and lovers evermore.” –Michael Field, Underneath the Bow (1893)
Together from 1878 to 1913: 35 years.
Edith Emma Cooper (January 12, 1862 - December 13, 1913)
Katherine Harris Bradley (October 27, 1846 - September 26, 1914)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
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Contemporary dining with carefully crafted dishes in chic riverside spot with alfresco balcony.
Address: 61-63 Petersham Rd, Richmond, Greater London TW10 6UT, UK (51.45518, -0.30333)
Type: Guest facility (open to public)
Phone: +44 20 8940 0902
Place
In 1899 the death of Edith Emma Cooper’s father enabled her and her aunt, Katherine Harris Bradley, to buy their own house as evidence of their "close marriage,” although Edith saw her father’s death as retribution for their lifestyle. The property, originally built as two Georgian houses in 1740, was described in a rental survey for George III, carried out in 1773 as a “messeuge (a dwelling), court and garden” and a “messuage with stables and coach house.” Lady Ann Bingham, whose sister Lady Lavinia married the first Earl of Spencer, rented the property in 1821, added the room which is currently the Bingham Bar, which links the properties. Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote under the pseudonym Michael Field, lived in the property from 1899-1914. They entertained many literary visitors including W.B. Yeats. The Bingham’s 15 bedrooms are named after their poetry and works. During the XX Century the property fell into disrepair and was bought by the current owners in 1984 undergoing extensive refurbishment from 2006-8. 53 Petersham Road, along with neighbouring associated buildings 55-61 are collectively known as The Paragon, and are all Grade II Listed Georgian-era buildings. No. 55 was at once home of Occultist Aleister Crowley. In 1898, while appearing at the Cambridge Footlights club, Herbert Pollitt (1871-1942), female impersonator under the name of Diane De Rougy, and art collector, met and had an affair with the then unknown Aleister Crowley. Crowley describes his lover: “Pollitt was rather plain than otherwise. His face was made tragic by the terrible hunger of the eyes and the bitter sadness of the mouth. He possessed one physical beauty - his hair. This was very plentiful and he wore it rather long. It was what is called a shock. But its colour was pale gold, like spring sunshine, and its texture was of the finest gossamer.” Crowley would later write that “I lived with Pollitt as his wife for some six months and he made a poet out of me.”
Life
Who: Katharine Harris Bradley (October 27, 1846 –September 26, 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (January 12, 1862 –December 13, 1913)
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper. As Field they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal “Works and Days.” Their intention was to keep the pen-name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend Robert Browning. Bradley’s elder sister, Emma, married James Robert Cooper in 1860, and went to live in Kenilworth, where their daughter, Edith Emma Cooper was born on January 12, 1862. Emma Cooper became an invalid for life after the birth of her second daughter, Amy, and Katharine Bradley, being her sister, stepped in to become the legal guardian of her niece Edith Cooper. From the late 1870s, when Edith was at University College, Bristol, they agreed to live together and were, over the next 40 years, lovers and co-authors. They had financial independence: Bradley’s father Charles Bradley had been in the tobacco industry in Birmingham. They developed a large circle of literary friends and contacts; in particular painters and life partners Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) and Charles Shannon (1863-1937), near whom they settled in Richmond, London. Robert Browning was also a close friend of Edith and Katherine, and they knew and admired Oscar Wilde, whose death they bitterly mourned. They knew many of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, including Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, J. A. Symonds and also Bernard Berenson. William Rothenstein was a friend. They wrote a number of passionate love poems to each other, and their name Michael Field was their way of declaring their inseparable oneness. Friends referred to them as the Fields, the Michaels or the Michael Fields. They had a range of pet names for each other. They also were passionately devoted to their pets, in particular a dog named Whym Chow, for whom they wrote a book of poems named after him. Edith died of cancer in 1913, as did Katherine less than a year later. They were buried together at St Mary the Virgin (Mortlake High Street, Across the road from the river, Mortlake, London, SW14 8JA). A now-lost marble tomb was erected in 1926. St Mary is a Roman Catholic church in North Worple Way, Mortlake, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The church building, in Gothic Revival style, was designed by Gilbert Blount, architect to the first Archbishop of Westminster, Nicholas Wiseman, and dates from 1852. In the same cemetery is buried Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extensive knowledge of languages and cultures. He wrote numerous books and scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects, including homosexuality. After his death in 1890, his wife Isabel destroyed much of his material, including Burton’s study on homosexuality that was planned to be published with the new translation of Sheikh Nefzawi’s “The Perfumed Garden.” Burton had a lifelong interest in the study of sexual practices. While working in the army of the East India Company, he participated in an undercover investigation of a brothel in Karachi, said to be frequented by British soldiers where the prostitutes were young boys. His report was so detailed that subsequent readers believed Burton had participated in some of the practices described in his writing. Burton lies buried with his wife in a tent-shaped mausoleum. The mausoleum is Grade II* listed.
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Buried: St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake High Street, Across the road from the river, Mortlake, London, SW14 8JA
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper. As Field, they wrote around 40 works together and a long journal Works and Days. Their intention was to keep the pen name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend Robert Browning. Bradley published first under the pseudonym Arran Leigh, a nod to Elizabeth Barrett. Edith adopted the name Isla Leigh. From the late 1870s, when Edith was at University College, Bristol, they agreed to live together and were, over the next 40 years, lovers and co-authors. They had financial independence: Bradley's father, Charles Bradley, had been in the tobacco industry in Birmingham. They developed a large circle of literary friends; in particular, painters and life partners Charles de Sousy Ricketts and Charles Hazelwood Shannon, near whom they settled in Richmond, London. They also were passionately devoted to their pets, in particular a dog named Whym Chow, for whom they wrote a book of poems named after him. This continued a tradition of lesbian couples forming families that included beloved animals. They wrote each other: “My love and I took hands and swore / against the world to be / Poets and lovers evermore.” –Michael Field, Underneath the Bow (1893)
Together from 1878 to 1913: 35 years.
Edith Emma Cooper (January 12, 1862 - December 13, 1913)
Katherine Harris Bradley (October 27, 1846 - September 26, 1914)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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Contemporary dining with carefully crafted dishes in chic riverside spot with alfresco balcony.
Address: 61-63 Petersham Rd, Richmond, Greater London TW10 6UT, UK (51.45518, -0.30333)
Type: Guest facility (open to public)
Phone: +44 20 8940 0902
Place
In 1899 the death of Edith Emma Cooper’s father enabled her and her aunt, Katherine Harris Bradley, to buy their own house as evidence of their "close marriage,” although Edith saw her father’s death as retribution for their lifestyle. The property, originally built as two Georgian houses in 1740, was described in a rental survey for George III, carried out in 1773 as a “messeuge (a dwelling), court and garden” and a “messuage with stables and coach house.” Lady Ann Bingham, whose sister Lady Lavinia married the first Earl of Spencer, rented the property in 1821, added the room which is currently the Bingham Bar, which links the properties. Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote under the pseudonym Michael Field, lived in the property from 1899-1914. They entertained many literary visitors including W.B. Yeats. The Bingham’s 15 bedrooms are named after their poetry and works. During the XX Century the property fell into disrepair and was bought by the current owners in 1984 undergoing extensive refurbishment from 2006-8. 53 Petersham Road, along with neighbouring associated buildings 55-61 are collectively known as The Paragon, and are all Grade II Listed Georgian-era buildings. No. 55 was at once home of Occultist Aleister Crowley. In 1898, while appearing at the Cambridge Footlights club, Herbert Pollitt (1871-1942), female impersonator under the name of Diane De Rougy, and art collector, met and had an affair with the then unknown Aleister Crowley. Crowley describes his lover: “Pollitt was rather plain than otherwise. His face was made tragic by the terrible hunger of the eyes and the bitter sadness of the mouth. He possessed one physical beauty - his hair. This was very plentiful and he wore it rather long. It was what is called a shock. But its colour was pale gold, like spring sunshine, and its texture was of the finest gossamer.” Crowley would later write that “I lived with Pollitt as his wife for some six months and he made a poet out of me.”
Life
Who: Katharine Harris Bradley (October 27, 1846 –September 26, 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (January 12, 1862 –December 13, 1913)
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper. As Field they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal “Works and Days.” Their intention was to keep the pen-name secret, but it became public knowledge, not long after they had confided in their friend Robert Browning. Bradley’s elder sister, Emma, married James Robert Cooper in 1860, and went to live in Kenilworth, where their daughter, Edith Emma Cooper was born on January 12, 1862. Emma Cooper became an invalid for life after the birth of her second daughter, Amy, and Katharine Bradley, being her sister, stepped in to become the legal guardian of her niece Edith Cooper. From the late 1870s, when Edith was at University College, Bristol, they agreed to live together and were, over the next 40 years, lovers and co-authors. They had financial independence: Bradley’s father Charles Bradley had been in the tobacco industry in Birmingham. They developed a large circle of literary friends and contacts; in particular painters and life partners Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) and Charles Shannon (1863-1937), near whom they settled in Richmond, London. Robert Browning was also a close friend of Edith and Katherine, and they knew and admired Oscar Wilde, whose death they bitterly mourned. They knew many of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, including Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, J. A. Symonds and also Bernard Berenson. William Rothenstein was a friend. They wrote a number of passionate love poems to each other, and their name Michael Field was their way of declaring their inseparable oneness. Friends referred to them as the Fields, the Michaels or the Michael Fields. They had a range of pet names for each other. They also were passionately devoted to their pets, in particular a dog named Whym Chow, for whom they wrote a book of poems named after him. Edith died of cancer in 1913, as did Katherine less than a year later. They were buried together at St Mary the Virgin (Mortlake High Street, Across the road from the river, Mortlake, London, SW14 8JA). A now-lost marble tomb was erected in 1926. St Mary is a Roman Catholic church in North Worple Way, Mortlake, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The church building, in Gothic Revival style, was designed by Gilbert Blount, architect to the first Archbishop of Westminster, Nicholas Wiseman, and dates from 1852. In the same cemetery is buried Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extensive knowledge of languages and cultures. He wrote numerous books and scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects, including homosexuality. After his death in 1890, his wife Isabel destroyed much of his material, including Burton’s study on homosexuality that was planned to be published with the new translation of Sheikh Nefzawi’s “The Perfumed Garden.” Burton had a lifelong interest in the study of sexual practices. While working in the army of the East India Company, he participated in an undercover investigation of a brothel in Karachi, said to be frequented by British soldiers where the prostitutes were young boys. His report was so detailed that subsequent readers believed Burton had participated in some of the practices described in his writing. Burton lies buried with his wife in a tent-shaped mausoleum. The mausoleum is Grade II* listed.
Queer Places, Vol. 2 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906312
ISBN-10: 1532906315
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Sarah Aldridge (January 27, 1911 – January 11, 2006)
Sarah Aldridge was the pen name of Anyda Marchant, who was a founding partner for Naiad Press 1973 and A&M Books in 1995, and a writer of primarily lesbian popular fiction.
Born: January 27, 1911, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: January 11, 2006, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, United States
Education: George Washington University
Sarah Aldridge was the pen name of Anyda Marchant, who was a founding partner for Naiad Press in 1973 and A&M Books in 1995, and a writer of primarily lesbian popular fiction. She met legal secretary Muriel Inez Crawford in 1948. The couple was together until Aldridge's death. Crawford died less than 5 months after Aldridge. One of the first women to pass the bar in Washington DC, she served the World Bank as an attorney in the Legal Department for 18 years until retiring in 1972. As Sarah Aldridge, she was the author of many literary works. Her first published work was a short story issued by The Ladder, the periodical released by the Daughters of Bilitis. The fourteen lesbian novels she wrote include All True Lovers, Tottie, A Flight of Angels, The Latecomer, and The Nesting Place. Aldridge died at her home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on January 11, 2006. She was 94. She was awarded the Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer Award posthumously in June 2007.
Together from 1948 to 2006: 58 years.
Sarah Aldridge aka Anyda Marchant (January 27, 1911 – January 11, 2006)
Muriel Inez Crawford (April 21, 1914 – June 7, 2006)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
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Release Date: September 21, 2014
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Born: January 27, 1911, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: January 11, 2006, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, United States
Education: George Washington University
Sarah Aldridge was the pen name of Anyda Marchant, who was a founding partner for Naiad Press in 1973 and A&M Books in 1995, and a writer of primarily lesbian popular fiction. She met legal secretary Muriel Inez Crawford in 1948. The couple was together until Aldridge's death. Crawford died less than 5 months after Aldridge. One of the first women to pass the bar in Washington DC, she served the World Bank as an attorney in the Legal Department for 18 years until retiring in 1972. As Sarah Aldridge, she was the author of many literary works. Her first published work was a short story issued by The Ladder, the periodical released by the Daughters of Bilitis. The fourteen lesbian novels she wrote include All True Lovers, Tottie, A Flight of Angels, The Latecomer, and The Nesting Place. Aldridge died at her home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on January 11, 2006. She was 94. She was awarded the Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer Award posthumously in June 2007.
Together from 1948 to 2006: 58 years.
Sarah Aldridge aka Anyda Marchant (January 27, 1911 – January 11, 2006)
Muriel Inez Crawford (April 21, 1914 – June 7, 2006)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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January 10, 2017
Sal Mineo (January 10, 1939 - February 12, 1976)
Salvatore "Sal" Mineo, Jr., was an American film and theatre actor, known for his performance as John "Plato" Crawford opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause.
Born: January 10, 1939, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
Died: February 12, 1976, West Hollywood, California, United States
Height: 1.68 m
Buried: Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, USA, Plot: PLOT 211. SEC 2
TV shows: Janet Dean, Registered Nurse, more
Education: Christopher Columbus High School
The Gate of Heaven Cemetery (10 W Stevens Ave, Hawthorne, NY 10532) was established in 1917 as a Roman Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by a large number of baseballs, bats, and caps. Notable queer burials: Peter Hujar (1934-1987); Sal Mineo (1939-1976).
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Born: January 10, 1939, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
Died: February 12, 1976, West Hollywood, California, United States
Height: 1.68 m
Buried: Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, USA, Plot: PLOT 211. SEC 2
TV shows: Janet Dean, Registered Nurse, more
Education: Christopher Columbus High School
The Gate of Heaven Cemetery (10 W Stevens Ave, Hawthorne, NY 10532) was established in 1917 as a Roman Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by a large number of baseballs, bats, and caps. Notable queer burials: Peter Hujar (1934-1987); Sal Mineo (1939-1976).
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Norman Moor (January 10, 1851 – March 6, 1895)
John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love. He referred to it as l'amour de l'impossible (love of the impossible.) A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers and artists. He also wrote much poetry inspired by his homosexual affairs. In Switzerland, he met Janet Catherine North (sister of botanical artist Marianne North, 1830–1890). They married at Hastings on Nov. 10, 1864. They settled in London and had four daughters: Janet (born 1865), Charlotte (born 1867), Margaret (born 1869) and Katharine (born 1875). (She was later honored for her writing as Dame Katharine Furse.) While in Clifton in 1868, Symonds met and fell in love with Norman Moor, a youth about to go up to Oxford, who became his pupil. Symonds and Moor had a four-year affair but did not have sex. According to Symonds' diary of Jan. 28, 1870, "I stripped him naked and fed sight, touch and mouth on these things." The relationship occupied a good part of his time. (On one occasion, he left his family and travelled to Italy and Switzerland with Moor.) It also inspired his most productive period of writing poetry, published in 1880 as New and Old: A Volume of Verse.
Together from 1868 to 1872: 4 years.
John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 – April 19, 1893)
Edward Norman Peter Moor (January 10, 1851 – March 6, 1895)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
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Together from 1868 to 1872: 4 years.
John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 – April 19, 1893)
Edward Norman Peter Moor (January 10, 1851 – March 6, 1895)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
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Kelsey Pharr (January 10, 1917 - April 20, 1961)
Buried: Lincoln Memorial Park, Allapattah, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
Although she never achieved the fame she deserved, Mabel Mercer was one of the most respected singers of the mid-20th century, a most original stylist, and the toast of the New York cabaret scene. After the end of World War I, Mercer settled in Paris, where she met the celebrated Ada "Bricktop" Smith, an American singer and cabaret proprietor whose patrons included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. During her Paris years, Mercer became friends (and possibly more) with the notoriously eccentric lesbian heiress, speedboat racer, and womanizer Marion “Joe” Carstairs. Carstairs, who had settled in her own "kingdom"--Whale Cay, on an island in the Bahamas--paid Mercer's way across the Atlantic, fearing what the Nazis would do to the biracial singer. Mercer resided in the Bahamas until 1941, when she married Kelsey Pharr, an openly gay African-American musician, and obtained an entry visa from the United States government. The marriage was clearly one of convenience, as Mercer and Pharr never lived together and rarely saw each other; however, Mercer, as a devout Catholic, would not divorce Pharr, and they remained legally married until his death. Pharr was one of The Delta Rhythm Boys, an American vocal group active for over 50 years from 1934 to 1987.
Together from 1941 to 1961: 20 years.
Mabel Mercer (February 3, 1900 - April 20, 1984)
Kelsey Leroy Pharr, Jr (January 10, 1917 - April 20, 1961)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
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Kelsey Pharr (1917-1961) is buried at Lincoln Memorial Park (3001 NW 46th St, Miami, FL 33142). A native of Miami, young Pharr established himself as a distinguished international entertainer, and was a big favorite in America and European theatrical circles. Mabel Mercer, English-born cabaret singer, resided in the Bahamas with Marion “Joe” Carstairs until 1941, when she married Kelsey Pharr, an openly gay African-American musician, and obtained an entry visa from the United States government. The marriage was clearly one of convenience, as Mercer and Pharr never lived together and rarely saw each other.
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
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ISBN-10: 1532901909
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Although she never achieved the fame she deserved, Mabel Mercer was one of the most respected singers of the mid-20th century, a most original stylist, and the toast of the New York cabaret scene. After the end of World War I, Mercer settled in Paris, where she met the celebrated Ada "Bricktop" Smith, an American singer and cabaret proprietor whose patrons included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. During her Paris years, Mercer became friends (and possibly more) with the notoriously eccentric lesbian heiress, speedboat racer, and womanizer Marion “Joe” Carstairs. Carstairs, who had settled in her own "kingdom"--Whale Cay, on an island in the Bahamas--paid Mercer's way across the Atlantic, fearing what the Nazis would do to the biracial singer. Mercer resided in the Bahamas until 1941, when she married Kelsey Pharr, an openly gay African-American musician, and obtained an entry visa from the United States government. The marriage was clearly one of convenience, as Mercer and Pharr never lived together and rarely saw each other; however, Mercer, as a devout Catholic, would not divorce Pharr, and they remained legally married until his death. Pharr was one of The Delta Rhythm Boys, an American vocal group active for over 50 years from 1934 to 1987.
Together from 1941 to 1961: 20 years.
Mabel Mercer (February 3, 1900 - April 20, 1984)
Kelsey Leroy Pharr, Jr (January 10, 1917 - April 20, 1961)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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Kelsey Pharr (1917-1961) is buried at Lincoln Memorial Park (3001 NW 46th St, Miami, FL 33142). A native of Miami, young Pharr established himself as a distinguished international entertainer, and was a big favorite in America and European theatrical circles. Mabel Mercer, English-born cabaret singer, resided in the Bahamas with Marion “Joe” Carstairs until 1941, when she married Kelsey Pharr, an openly gay African-American musician, and obtained an entry visa from the United States government. The marriage was clearly one of convenience, as Mercer and Pharr never lived together and rarely saw each other.
Queer Places, Vol. 1 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532901904
ISBN-10: 1532901909
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Johnnie Ray (January 10, 1927 - February 24, 1990)
John Alvin "Johnnie" Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Extremely popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, ...
Born: January 10, 1927, Hopewell, Oregon, United States
Died: February 24, 1990, Los Angeles, California, United States
Albums: Johnnie Ray's Greatest Hits, 'Til Morning, Cry Guy, more
Movies: There's No Business Like Show Business, Rogue's Gallery
Record labels: Columbia Records, Okeh Records
Buried: Hopewell Cemetery, Dayton, Yamhill County, Oregon, USA
Johnnie Ray (1927–1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Extremely popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett credits Ray as being the true father of rock and roll. In 1951, when Ray was obscure and not yet signed to a record label, he was arrested in Detroit for accosting and soliciting an undercover vice squad police officer in the restroom of the Stone Theatre, a burlesque house. When he appeared in court, he pleaded guilty. He paid a fine and was released. Because of his obscurity at the time, the Detroit newspapers did not report the story. After his sudden rise to fame the following year, rumors about his sexuality began to spread. Despite her knowledge of the solicitation arrest, Marilyn Morrison, daughter of the owner of West Hollywood's Mocambo nightclub, married Ray at the peak of his American fame. The couple separated in 1953 and divorced in 1954. Several writers have noted that the Ray-Morrison marriage occurred under false pretenses, and that Ray had a long-term relationship with his manager, Bill Franklin. A biography of Ray points out, however, that Franklin was 13 years younger than Ray and that both their personal and business relationships began in 1963, many years after the Ray-Morrison divorce. In 1959, Ray was arrested again in Detroit for soliciting an undercover officer at the Brass Rail, a bar that was described many years later by one biographer as a haven for musicians and by another biographer as a gay bar. Ray went to trial following this second arrest and was found not guilty. Two years after his death, several friends shared with biographer Jonny Whiteside their knowledge of his homosexuality. Johnnie Ray was born January 10, 1927, in Hopewell, Oregon, to parents Elmer and Hazel (Simkins) Ray. Along with older sister Elma, Ray spent part of his childhood on a farm in Dallas, Oregon and attended grade school there. The family later moved to Portland, Oregon, where Ray attended high school. On February 24, 1990, he died of liver failure at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. He is buried at Hopewell Cemetery (12475 SE Finn Ln, Dayton, OR 97114).
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Born: January 10, 1927, Hopewell, Oregon, United States
Died: February 24, 1990, Los Angeles, California, United States
Albums: Johnnie Ray's Greatest Hits, 'Til Morning, Cry Guy, more
Movies: There's No Business Like Show Business, Rogue's Gallery
Record labels: Columbia Records, Okeh Records
Buried: Hopewell Cemetery, Dayton, Yamhill County, Oregon, USA
Johnnie Ray (1927–1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Extremely popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett credits Ray as being the true father of rock and roll. In 1951, when Ray was obscure and not yet signed to a record label, he was arrested in Detroit for accosting and soliciting an undercover vice squad police officer in the restroom of the Stone Theatre, a burlesque house. When he appeared in court, he pleaded guilty. He paid a fine and was released. Because of his obscurity at the time, the Detroit newspapers did not report the story. After his sudden rise to fame the following year, rumors about his sexuality began to spread. Despite her knowledge of the solicitation arrest, Marilyn Morrison, daughter of the owner of West Hollywood's Mocambo nightclub, married Ray at the peak of his American fame. The couple separated in 1953 and divorced in 1954. Several writers have noted that the Ray-Morrison marriage occurred under false pretenses, and that Ray had a long-term relationship with his manager, Bill Franklin. A biography of Ray points out, however, that Franklin was 13 years younger than Ray and that both their personal and business relationships began in 1963, many years after the Ray-Morrison divorce. In 1959, Ray was arrested again in Detroit for soliciting an undercover officer at the Brass Rail, a bar that was described many years later by one biographer as a haven for musicians and by another biographer as a gay bar. Ray went to trial following this second arrest and was found not guilty. Two years after his death, several friends shared with biographer Jonny Whiteside their knowledge of his homosexuality. Johnnie Ray was born January 10, 1927, in Hopewell, Oregon, to parents Elmer and Hazel (Simkins) Ray. Along with older sister Elma, Ray spent part of his childhood on a farm in Dallas, Oregon and attended grade school there. The family later moved to Portland, Oregon, where Ray attended high school. On February 24, 1990, he died of liver failure at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. He is buried at Hopewell Cemetery (12475 SE Finn Ln, Dayton, OR 97114).
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John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol (September 15, 1954 – January 10, 1999)
Frederick William John Augustus Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, also known as John Jermyn and John Bristol, was a British hereditary peer, aristocrat and businessman.
Born: September 15, 1954, Ickworth House, United Kingdom
Died: January 10, 1999, Horringer, United Kingdom
Education: Harrow School
Parents: Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, Lady Pauline Hervey
Siblings: Lady Victoria Hervey
Grandparents: Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol, Lady Jean Cochrane
Lived: Ickworth House, Bury Saint Edmunds
Buried: St Mary, Honey Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1RT
National Trust-owned property with an ornate, domed rotunda and extensive art and silver collection.
Address: House Stewards Flat Rotunda, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP29 5QE, UK (52.2218, 0.65787)
Type: Guest facility (open to public)
Hours: Monday through Sunday 9.00-17.30 (managed by the National Trust)
Phone: +44 1284 735270
Place
Built between 1795 and 1829, Design by Antonio Asprucci (1723-1808)
You can trace Ickworth’s origins back to the Domesday book when it was merely one of hundreds of assets belonging to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. Its association with the Hervey family began three centuries later in 1432. Ickworth House is a country house near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. It is a neoclassical building set in parkland. The house is in the care of the National Trust. Thomas Hervey acquired the land by marriage. Through success and scandal, Ickworth was the family’s home for the next 500 years. Thomas’ descendants set about transforming the ancient deer-park into an aristocratic paradise. The modest medieval hall became a turreted Tudor mansion. In 1701 the 1st Earl demolished the mansion and developed plans for an even grander abode. He also renovated the church, where all Ickworth’s owners have been laid to rest. Residents of the tiny hamlet of Ickworth were rehoused in neighbouring Horringer, and their former dwellings demolished to make way for pasture. The next generation of Herveys made even more of an impact on the landscape. The building was the creation of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry who commissioned a classical villa in the Suffolk countryside. The Earl died in 1803, leaving the completion of house to his successor. In 1956, the house, park, and a large endowment were given to the National Trust in lieu of death duties. As part of the handover agreement, a 99-year lease on the 60-room East Wing was given to the Marquess of Bristol. However, in 1998 the 7th Marquess of Bristol sold the remaining lease on the East Wing to the National Trust. He was succeeded by his half-brother Frederick William Augustus Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol (born October 19, 1979.) The National Trust refused to sell the remaining lease term back to the 8th Marquess, thereby contravening the Letter of Wishes which states that the head of the family should always be offered whatever accommodation he chooses at Ickworth. The family’s once private East Wing is now run as The Ickworth Hotel and apartments on a lease from the National Trust. The apartments are in Dower House which is in the grounds. The West Wing at Ickworth House went uncompleted until 2006, when a joint partnership between the National Trust and Sodexo Prestige led to its renovation and opening as a centre for conferences and events. The first wedding in the property’s history took place in 2006.
Life
Who: John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (October 13, 1696 – August 5, 1743)
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, courtier and political writer and memoirist, was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, by his second wife, Elizabeth. He was known as Lord Hervey from 1723, upon the death of his elder half-brother, Carr, the only son of his father’s first wife, Isabella, but Lord Carr Hervey never became Earl of Bristol, as he predeceased his father. John Hervey was a frequent visitor at the court of the Prince and Princess of Wales at Richmond, and in 1720 he married Mary “Molly” Lepell, daughter of Nicholas Lepell, who was one of the Princess’s ladies-in-waiting, and a great court beauty. Molly Lepel (1697 – 1768) was praised by finest writers such as Voltaire and Pope. "Bright Venus you never saw bedded So perfect a beau and a belle As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepel" - Lord Chesterfield and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath. Her portrait can be found in a bedroom of the Rotunda. Hervey was bisexual. He was married to Mary Lepell, but he had an affair with Anne Vane, and possibly with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) and Princess Caroline. He lived with Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester (1704-1776) during the decade after he followed him to Italy in 1728. He wrote passionate love letters to Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764), whom he first met in 1736. He may have had a sexual affair with Prince Frederick before their friendship dissolved. He was also attracted to Henry Fox before his affair with his brother Stephen Fox. John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, is buried at St Mary (Hill Road, main road through the village, Westley, Suffolk, IP33 3TL). Frederick Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol (1954-1999) was a British aristocrat and businessman, notable for both his wealth, which he used to fund his vices, includeding drug addiction, and his flamboyant homosexuality and dissipated lifestyle. The life of the 7th Marquess was as remarkable as his earlier forebears and equalled them in terms of his well-publicised private life and indulgence, surprising many with a brief marriage in the 1980s. Rumoured in the press to have blown a £21 million fortune, (and even more made as a business man), on vice and high living, the 7th Marquess sold much of his remaining family possessions and moved out of the East Wing at Ickworth in 1996. He was the last of the Hervey family to live at Ickworth and was succeeded by his half-brother Frederick as 8th Marquess of Bristol. In spite of a lifetime of homosexual relations, John married Francesca Fisher, then 20, just shy of his 30th birthday; it is not known whether they consummated their relationship. The marriage lasted for four years; they had no children. The 7th Marquess was described by his friend Jamie Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, as a "complicated, reserved character, hiding behind a flamboyant personality.” Lord Bristol was alleged to have been a harsh father to his eldest son, according to friends of the latter. "He treated his son and heir with indifference and contempt," said Anthony Haden-Guest. The Marquess of Blandford summed up the relationship: "Victor created the monster that John became." Lord Nicholas Hervey (1961-1998) was the only child born to the 6th Marquess of Bristol by his second wife (m. 1960) Lady Juliet Wentworth-FitzWilliam. Lord Nicholas’s mother was the only child of the wealthy 8th Earl Fitzwilliam; she was 13 years old when her father died in a small aircraft crash that also killed his intended second wife Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, sister of John F. Kennedy, in 1948. Lord Nicholas was a descendent of William the Conqueror on both his mother’s and father’s side. When Nicholas was 11 years old, his mother divorced his father and married his 60-year-old friend, Somerset de Chair (d. 1996), with whom she had a daughter, Helena de Chair, five years later. In 1996, she married a third time and is now known as Lady Juliet Tadgell. Lord Nicholas Hervey was found dead in his Chelsea flat at the age of 36, having hanged himself. He never married and had no issue. His half-brother, the 7th Marquess of Bristol, died less than a year later. Frederick William Augustus Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol (born October 19, 1979) is a British peer. He succeeded his elder half-brother the 7th Marquess (1954–1999) in January 1999 as Marquess of Bristol. He is also the 12th Earl of Bristol, Earl Jermyn of Horningsheath in the County of Suffolk, 13th Baron Hervey of Ickworth in the County of Suffolk, and Hereditary High Steward of the Liberty of St Edmund, which encompasses the whole former county of West Suffolk. In 1998 the 7th Marquess sold his right to occupy the East Wing of Ickworth House, the family seat since the XV century. After his death in 1999 the 8th Marquess vigorously criticised the National Trust for not reselling what would have been the remaining term of that leasehold to him, arguing that the 7th Marquess could only sell his own life interest, not that of his descendants. This was disputed by the National Trust who have since converted the East Wing into a hotel. However, in 2009 Sir Simon Jenkins, the National Trust’s new chairman, stated, "I think it is in our interest for the Marquesses of Bristol to be living there."
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Born: September 15, 1954, Ickworth House, United Kingdom
Died: January 10, 1999, Horringer, United Kingdom
Education: Harrow School
Parents: Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, Lady Pauline Hervey
Siblings: Lady Victoria Hervey
Grandparents: Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol, Lady Jean Cochrane
Lived: Ickworth House, Bury Saint Edmunds
Buried: St Mary, Honey Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 1RT
National Trust-owned property with an ornate, domed rotunda and extensive art and silver collection.
Address: House Stewards Flat Rotunda, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP29 5QE, UK (52.2218, 0.65787)
Type: Guest facility (open to public)
Hours: Monday through Sunday 9.00-17.30 (managed by the National Trust)
Phone: +44 1284 735270
Place
Built between 1795 and 1829, Design by Antonio Asprucci (1723-1808)
You can trace Ickworth’s origins back to the Domesday book when it was merely one of hundreds of assets belonging to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. Its association with the Hervey family began three centuries later in 1432. Ickworth House is a country house near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. It is a neoclassical building set in parkland. The house is in the care of the National Trust. Thomas Hervey acquired the land by marriage. Through success and scandal, Ickworth was the family’s home for the next 500 years. Thomas’ descendants set about transforming the ancient deer-park into an aristocratic paradise. The modest medieval hall became a turreted Tudor mansion. In 1701 the 1st Earl demolished the mansion and developed plans for an even grander abode. He also renovated the church, where all Ickworth’s owners have been laid to rest. Residents of the tiny hamlet of Ickworth were rehoused in neighbouring Horringer, and their former dwellings demolished to make way for pasture. The next generation of Herveys made even more of an impact on the landscape. The building was the creation of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry who commissioned a classical villa in the Suffolk countryside. The Earl died in 1803, leaving the completion of house to his successor. In 1956, the house, park, and a large endowment were given to the National Trust in lieu of death duties. As part of the handover agreement, a 99-year lease on the 60-room East Wing was given to the Marquess of Bristol. However, in 1998 the 7th Marquess of Bristol sold the remaining lease on the East Wing to the National Trust. He was succeeded by his half-brother Frederick William Augustus Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol (born October 19, 1979.) The National Trust refused to sell the remaining lease term back to the 8th Marquess, thereby contravening the Letter of Wishes which states that the head of the family should always be offered whatever accommodation he chooses at Ickworth. The family’s once private East Wing is now run as The Ickworth Hotel and apartments on a lease from the National Trust. The apartments are in Dower House which is in the grounds. The West Wing at Ickworth House went uncompleted until 2006, when a joint partnership between the National Trust and Sodexo Prestige led to its renovation and opening as a centre for conferences and events. The first wedding in the property’s history took place in 2006.
Life
Who: John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (October 13, 1696 – August 5, 1743)
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, courtier and political writer and memoirist, was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, by his second wife, Elizabeth. He was known as Lord Hervey from 1723, upon the death of his elder half-brother, Carr, the only son of his father’s first wife, Isabella, but Lord Carr Hervey never became Earl of Bristol, as he predeceased his father. John Hervey was a frequent visitor at the court of the Prince and Princess of Wales at Richmond, and in 1720 he married Mary “Molly” Lepell, daughter of Nicholas Lepell, who was one of the Princess’s ladies-in-waiting, and a great court beauty. Molly Lepel (1697 – 1768) was praised by finest writers such as Voltaire and Pope. "Bright Venus you never saw bedded So perfect a beau and a belle As when Hervey the handsome was wedded To the beautiful Molly Lepel" - Lord Chesterfield and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath. Her portrait can be found in a bedroom of the Rotunda. Hervey was bisexual. He was married to Mary Lepell, but he had an affair with Anne Vane, and possibly with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) and Princess Caroline. He lived with Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester (1704-1776) during the decade after he followed him to Italy in 1728. He wrote passionate love letters to Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764), whom he first met in 1736. He may have had a sexual affair with Prince Frederick before their friendship dissolved. He was also attracted to Henry Fox before his affair with his brother Stephen Fox. John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, is buried at St Mary (Hill Road, main road through the village, Westley, Suffolk, IP33 3TL). Frederick Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol (1954-1999) was a British aristocrat and businessman, notable for both his wealth, which he used to fund his vices, includeding drug addiction, and his flamboyant homosexuality and dissipated lifestyle. The life of the 7th Marquess was as remarkable as his earlier forebears and equalled them in terms of his well-publicised private life and indulgence, surprising many with a brief marriage in the 1980s. Rumoured in the press to have blown a £21 million fortune, (and even more made as a business man), on vice and high living, the 7th Marquess sold much of his remaining family possessions and moved out of the East Wing at Ickworth in 1996. He was the last of the Hervey family to live at Ickworth and was succeeded by his half-brother Frederick as 8th Marquess of Bristol. In spite of a lifetime of homosexual relations, John married Francesca Fisher, then 20, just shy of his 30th birthday; it is not known whether they consummated their relationship. The marriage lasted for four years; they had no children. The 7th Marquess was described by his friend Jamie Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, as a "complicated, reserved character, hiding behind a flamboyant personality.” Lord Bristol was alleged to have been a harsh father to his eldest son, according to friends of the latter. "He treated his son and heir with indifference and contempt," said Anthony Haden-Guest. The Marquess of Blandford summed up the relationship: "Victor created the monster that John became." Lord Nicholas Hervey (1961-1998) was the only child born to the 6th Marquess of Bristol by his second wife (m. 1960) Lady Juliet Wentworth-FitzWilliam. Lord Nicholas’s mother was the only child of the wealthy 8th Earl Fitzwilliam; she was 13 years old when her father died in a small aircraft crash that also killed his intended second wife Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, sister of John F. Kennedy, in 1948. Lord Nicholas was a descendent of William the Conqueror on both his mother’s and father’s side. When Nicholas was 11 years old, his mother divorced his father and married his 60-year-old friend, Somerset de Chair (d. 1996), with whom she had a daughter, Helena de Chair, five years later. In 1996, she married a third time and is now known as Lady Juliet Tadgell. Lord Nicholas Hervey was found dead in his Chelsea flat at the age of 36, having hanged himself. He never married and had no issue. His half-brother, the 7th Marquess of Bristol, died less than a year later. Frederick William Augustus Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol (born October 19, 1979) is a British peer. He succeeded his elder half-brother the 7th Marquess (1954–1999) in January 1999 as Marquess of Bristol. He is also the 12th Earl of Bristol, Earl Jermyn of Horningsheath in the County of Suffolk, 13th Baron Hervey of Ickworth in the County of Suffolk, and Hereditary High Steward of the Liberty of St Edmund, which encompasses the whole former county of West Suffolk. In 1998 the 7th Marquess sold his right to occupy the East Wing of Ickworth House, the family seat since the XV century. After his death in 1999 the 8th Marquess vigorously criticised the National Trust for not reselling what would have been the remaining term of that leasehold to him, arguing that the 7th Marquess could only sell his own life interest, not that of his descendants. This was disputed by the National Trust who have since converted the East Wing into a hotel. However, in 2009 Sir Simon Jenkins, the National Trust’s new chairman, stated, "I think it is in our interest for the Marquesses of Bristol to be living there."
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Gluck (August 13, 1895 – January 10, 1978)
Gluck was a British painter.
Born: August 13, 1895
Died: January 10, 1978, Steyning, United Kingdom
Artwork: The three nifty nats, Street gossip, Bank holiday Monday, more
Lived: Chantry House, 51 Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex BN44 3YB, UK (50.8897, -0.32739)
32 Compayne Gardens, NW6
73 Avenue Road, Camden Town
Bolton House, Windmill Hill, Hampstead, London, NW3
English painter Peter Gluck, portrayed by Romaine Brooks in Peter, A Young English Girl, in 1923 or 24, was born as Hannah Gluckstein to a wealthy and close-knit Jewish family. In 1944, Gluck moved to Chantry House in Steyning, Sussex, living with lover Edith Shackleton Heald until her death. Edith, dramatic critic and leader writer on the Evening Standard and book reviewer, had been W.B. Yeats’s close friend and possible lover. Gluck was the child of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Gluck's American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer. One of Gluck's best-known paintings, Medallion, is a dual portrait of Gluck and Gluck's lover Nesta Obermer, inspired by a night in 1936 when they attended a Fritz Busch production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. According to Gluck's biographer Diana Souhami, "They sat in the third row and she felt the intensity of the music fused them into one person and matched their love." Gluck referred to it as the "YouWe" picture. Gluck also had a romantic relationship with the British floral designer Constance Spry (December 5, 1886 – January 3, 1960), whose work informed the artist's paintings.
Together from 1944 to 1976: 32 years.
Constance Spry (December 5, 1886 – January 3, 1960)
Hannah Glukstein aka Peter Gluck (August 13, 1895 – January 10, 1978)
Edith Shackleton Heald (died November 5, 1976)
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Gluck was born in 1895 into a wealthy Jewish family at 32 Compayne Gardens, NW6 the child of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Gluck's American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer. Her brother, Sir Louis Gluckstein, was a Conservative politician.
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Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein, 1895–1978) was a British painter. In 1906 her father, Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire, moved the family to 73 Avenue Road, Camden Town.
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Sybil Cookson, journalist and writer of romantic novels, and granddaughter of Sir James Crichton-Browne, moved with her two young daughters into Bolton House with Gluck in 1928. Bolton House (Windmill Hill, Hampstead, London, NW3) was a tall, red-brick Georgian building on three floors, with a wide drive through wrought-iron gates, in the heart of Hampstead village.
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In 1944 Gluck moved to Chantry House in Steyning, Sussex, living with lover Edith Shackleton Heald until her death. Chantry House was Edith’s family home.
Address: 51 Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex BN44 3YB, UK (50.8897, -0.32739)
Type: Private Property
English Heritage Building ID: 298685 (Grade II, 1955)
Place
Chantry House is a XVIII century two storeys house with attic. Five windows. Two dormers. Faced with grey headers on a red brick base with brick dressings, quoins, panels between the ground and first floor windows, dentilled cornice and parapet. Windows with cambered head linings and glazing bars intact. Doorway up five steps with pilasters, pediment, rectangular fanlight and door of six fielded panels. A Tablet recording that: "William Butler Yeats, 1859-1939, wrote many of his later poems in this house" (he was good friend, and possible lover, with Edith Shackleton Heald) Edith and Nora Shackleton Heald, sisters, lived here in the 1920s. Edith Shackleton Heald was a journalist; daughter of J.T. Heald and Mary Shackleton. Formerly a dramatic critic and leader writer on the Evening Standard, later she became a book reviewer. Nora Shackleton Heald was a journalist. She entered journalism in 1918, as Women’s Page Editor of the Sunday Despatch; she was a Dramatic Critic for the Daily Mail, London. A columnist on Daily Chronicle and Women’s Page Editor for the Daily Herald. Editor of The Queen and subsequently of The Lady, until 1954. She died on Apr. 5, 1961. Gluck moved in 1944 and lived here with her lover Edith Shackleton Heald until her death in 1978 (two years after Edith.)
Life
Who: Hannah Gluckstein (August 13, 1895 – January 10, 1978) aka Gluck and Edith Shackleton Heald (1885 – November 5, 1976)
Gluck was a British painter. She was born into a wealthy Jewish family, the child of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Gluck’s American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer. Gluck’s brother, Sir Louis Gluckstein, was a Conservative politician. One of Gluck’s best-known paintings, “Medallion,” is a dual portrait of Gluck and Gluck’s lover Nesta Obermer, inspired by a night in 1936 when they attended a Fritz Busch production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” According to Gluck’s biographer Diana Souhami, "They sat in the third row and she felt the intensity of the music fused them into one person and matched their love." Gluck referred to it as the "YouWe" picture. It was later used as the cover of a Virago Press edition of “The Well of Loneliness.” Gluck also had a romantic relationship with the British floral designer Constance Spry, whose work informed the artist’s paintings. In Gluck’s seventies, using special handmade paints supplied free by a manufacturer who had taken Gluck’s exacting standards as a challenge, Gluck returned to painting and had another well-received solo show. It was Gluck’s first since 1937, and Gluck’s last: Gluck died in 1978. Gluck’s last major work was a painting of a decomposing fish head on the beach entitled “Rage, Rage against the Dying of the Light.”
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Born: August 13, 1895
Died: January 10, 1978, Steyning, United Kingdom
Artwork: The three nifty nats, Street gossip, Bank holiday Monday, more
Lived: Chantry House, 51 Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex BN44 3YB, UK (50.8897, -0.32739)
32 Compayne Gardens, NW6
73 Avenue Road, Camden Town
Bolton House, Windmill Hill, Hampstead, London, NW3
English painter Peter Gluck, portrayed by Romaine Brooks in Peter, A Young English Girl, in 1923 or 24, was born as Hannah Gluckstein to a wealthy and close-knit Jewish family. In 1944, Gluck moved to Chantry House in Steyning, Sussex, living with lover Edith Shackleton Heald until her death. Edith, dramatic critic and leader writer on the Evening Standard and book reviewer, had been W.B. Yeats’s close friend and possible lover. Gluck was the child of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Gluck's American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer. One of Gluck's best-known paintings, Medallion, is a dual portrait of Gluck and Gluck's lover Nesta Obermer, inspired by a night in 1936 when they attended a Fritz Busch production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. According to Gluck's biographer Diana Souhami, "They sat in the third row and she felt the intensity of the music fused them into one person and matched their love." Gluck referred to it as the "YouWe" picture. Gluck also had a romantic relationship with the British floral designer Constance Spry (December 5, 1886 – January 3, 1960), whose work informed the artist's paintings.
Together from 1944 to 1976: 32 years.
Constance Spry (December 5, 1886 – January 3, 1960)
Hannah Glukstein aka Peter Gluck (August 13, 1895 – January 10, 1978)
Edith Shackleton Heald (died November 5, 1976)
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Gluck was born in 1895 into a wealthy Jewish family at 32 Compayne Gardens, NW6 the child of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Gluck's American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer. Her brother, Sir Louis Gluckstein, was a Conservative politician.
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Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein, 1895–1978) was a British painter. In 1906 her father, Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire, moved the family to 73 Avenue Road, Camden Town.
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Sybil Cookson, journalist and writer of romantic novels, and granddaughter of Sir James Crichton-Browne, moved with her two young daughters into Bolton House with Gluck in 1928. Bolton House (Windmill Hill, Hampstead, London, NW3) was a tall, red-brick Georgian building on three floors, with a wide drive through wrought-iron gates, in the heart of Hampstead village.
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In 1944 Gluck moved to Chantry House in Steyning, Sussex, living with lover Edith Shackleton Heald until her death. Chantry House was Edith’s family home.
Address: 51 Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex BN44 3YB, UK (50.8897, -0.32739)
Type: Private Property
English Heritage Building ID: 298685 (Grade II, 1955)
Place
Chantry House is a XVIII century two storeys house with attic. Five windows. Two dormers. Faced with grey headers on a red brick base with brick dressings, quoins, panels between the ground and first floor windows, dentilled cornice and parapet. Windows with cambered head linings and glazing bars intact. Doorway up five steps with pilasters, pediment, rectangular fanlight and door of six fielded panels. A Tablet recording that: "William Butler Yeats, 1859-1939, wrote many of his later poems in this house" (he was good friend, and possible lover, with Edith Shackleton Heald) Edith and Nora Shackleton Heald, sisters, lived here in the 1920s. Edith Shackleton Heald was a journalist; daughter of J.T. Heald and Mary Shackleton. Formerly a dramatic critic and leader writer on the Evening Standard, later she became a book reviewer. Nora Shackleton Heald was a journalist. She entered journalism in 1918, as Women’s Page Editor of the Sunday Despatch; she was a Dramatic Critic for the Daily Mail, London. A columnist on Daily Chronicle and Women’s Page Editor for the Daily Herald. Editor of The Queen and subsequently of The Lady, until 1954. She died on Apr. 5, 1961. Gluck moved in 1944 and lived here with her lover Edith Shackleton Heald until her death in 1978 (two years after Edith.)
Life
Who: Hannah Gluckstein (August 13, 1895 – January 10, 1978) aka Gluck and Edith Shackleton Heald (1885 – November 5, 1976)
Gluck was a British painter. She was born into a wealthy Jewish family, the child of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Gluck’s American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer. Gluck’s brother, Sir Louis Gluckstein, was a Conservative politician. One of Gluck’s best-known paintings, “Medallion,” is a dual portrait of Gluck and Gluck’s lover Nesta Obermer, inspired by a night in 1936 when they attended a Fritz Busch production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” According to Gluck’s biographer Diana Souhami, "They sat in the third row and she felt the intensity of the music fused them into one person and matched their love." Gluck referred to it as the "YouWe" picture. It was later used as the cover of a Virago Press edition of “The Well of Loneliness.” Gluck also had a romantic relationship with the British floral designer Constance Spry, whose work informed the artist’s paintings. In Gluck’s seventies, using special handmade paints supplied free by a manufacturer who had taken Gluck’s exacting standards as a challenge, Gluck returned to painting and had another well-received solo show. It was Gluck’s first since 1937, and Gluck’s last: Gluck died in 1978. Gluck’s last major work was a painting of a decomposing fish head on the beach entitled “Rage, Rage against the Dying of the Light.”
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