Elisa Rolle's Blog, page 259
January 10, 2017
George Merrill (1866 – January 10, 1928)
George Merrill was the lifelong partner of English poet and LGBT activist Edward Carpenter. Merrill, a working-class young man who had been raised in the slums of Sheffield, had no formal education.
Born: 1866, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Died: January 1928, Guildford, United Kingdom
Lived: Millthorpe, Mountside, Guildford, Surrey GU2 4JD, UK (51.23228, -0.58286)
Carpenter House, The Glen, Cordwell Ln, Millthorpe, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 7WH, UK (53.28404, -1.53118)
Buried: Guildford Cemetery, Guildford, Guildford Borough, Surrey, England
Buried alongside: Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter was a socialist poet and philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist. A leading figure in late 19th and early 20th century Britain, he was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore. A strong advocate of sexual freedom, living in a gay community near Sheffield, he had a profound influence on both D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster (it has been said he and Merrill are the inspiration for Maurice and Alec.) On his return from India in 1891, Carpenter met George Merrill, a working class man also from Sheffield, and the two men struck up a relationship, moving in together in 1898. Their relationship endured and they remained partners for the rest of their lives, a fact made all the more extraordinary by the hysteria about homosexuality generated by the Oscar Wilde’s trial of 1895. In January 1928, Merrill died suddenly, leaving Carpenter devastated: "there was only the end to be desired." In May, 1928, Carpenter suffered a paralytic stroke, which rendered him almost helpless. He lived another 13 months before dying on June 28, 1929. They are buried together at Guildford Cemetery, Surrey; under Merrill’s name you read “about 40 years with Edward Carpenter.”
Together from 1891 to 1928: 37 years.
Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 - June 28, 1929)
George Merrill (1866 – January 10, 1928)
Days of Love edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325
ISBN-10: 1500563323
Release Date: September 21, 2014
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Edward Carpenter and George Merrill are buried together at Mount Cemetery, Guildford. On the tombstone you can read: Edward Carpenter, also George Merrill, about 40 years with Edward Carpenter.
Addresses:
Millthorpe, Mountside, Guildford, Surrey GU2 4JD, UK (51.23228, -0.58286)
Carpenter House, The Glen, Cordwell Ln, Millthorpe, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 7WH, UK (53.28404, -1.53118)
Place
Carpenter House was the home of author and philosopher Edward Carpenter until 1922. Millthorpe consist of a mixture of dwellings, ancient cottages and farms on the one hand and a suburban overflow on the other. In the summer of 1922, Edward Carpenter (then age 78) left Derbyshire and his beloved Millthorpe. He moved South with George Merrill to Mountside, Guildford and a villa at the top of the hill of Mountside with fine views over the town, which they named Millthorpe. Mountside rises up just five minutes walk from Guildford station, and the regular train service that can bring you to central London within 40 minutes; a steep residential road, quiet and suburban, that gives glimpses out over Guildford as you climb. A left hand turn at the top of the road also leads to Mountside Cemetery where Edward Carpenter and George Merrill are buried together. If you walk out through the lower part of the cemetary you also pass the grave of Lewis Caroll. Taking an alternative path back to Mountside road, a cutting that ran along the back of the houses, at the far end there is Millthorpe.
Life
Who: Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 – June 28, 1929) and George Merrill (1866 – January 10, 1928)
Edward Carpenter was a socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early LGBT activist. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt Whitman. He corresponded with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, James Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, E D Morel, William Morris, E R Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner. When his father Charles Carpenter died in 1882, he left his son a considerable fortune. This enabled Carpenter to quit his lectureship to start a simpler life of market gardening in Millthorpe, near Barlow, Derbyshire. On his return from India in 1891, he met George Merrill (1866-1928), a working class man also from Sheffield, and the two men struck up a relationship, eventually moving in together in 1898. E. M. Forster was also close friends with the couple, who on a visit to Millthorpe in 1912 was inspired to write his gay-themed novel, “Maurice.” Forster records in his diary that, Merrill, “touched my backside - gently and just above the buttocks. I believe he touched most people’s. The sensation was unusual and I still remember it, as I remember the position of a long vanished tooth. He made a profound impression on me and touched a creative spring." The relationship between Carpenter and Merrill was the template for the relationship between Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper in Forster’s novel. Carpenter was also a significant influence on the author D. H. Lawrence, whose “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” can be seen as a heterosexualised Maurice.
Queer Places, Vol. 2 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906312
ISBN-10: 1532906315
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Born: 1866, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Died: January 1928, Guildford, United Kingdom
Lived: Millthorpe, Mountside, Guildford, Surrey GU2 4JD, UK (51.23228, -0.58286)
Carpenter House, The Glen, Cordwell Ln, Millthorpe, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 7WH, UK (53.28404, -1.53118)
Buried: Guildford Cemetery, Guildford, Guildford Borough, Surrey, England
Buried alongside: Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter was a socialist poet and philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist. A leading figure in late 19th and early 20th century Britain, he was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore. A strong advocate of sexual freedom, living in a gay community near Sheffield, he had a profound influence on both D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster (it has been said he and Merrill are the inspiration for Maurice and Alec.) On his return from India in 1891, Carpenter met George Merrill, a working class man also from Sheffield, and the two men struck up a relationship, moving in together in 1898. Their relationship endured and they remained partners for the rest of their lives, a fact made all the more extraordinary by the hysteria about homosexuality generated by the Oscar Wilde’s trial of 1895. In January 1928, Merrill died suddenly, leaving Carpenter devastated: "there was only the end to be desired." In May, 1928, Carpenter suffered a paralytic stroke, which rendered him almost helpless. He lived another 13 months before dying on June 28, 1929. They are buried together at Guildford Cemetery, Surrey; under Merrill’s name you read “about 40 years with Edward Carpenter.”
Together from 1891 to 1928: 37 years.
Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 - June 28, 1929)
George Merrill (1866 – January 10, 1928)
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/?...
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Edward Carpenter and George Merrill are buried together at Mount Cemetery, Guildford. On the tombstone you can read: Edward Carpenter, also George Merrill, about 40 years with Edward Carpenter.
Addresses:
Millthorpe, Mountside, Guildford, Surrey GU2 4JD, UK (51.23228, -0.58286)
Carpenter House, The Glen, Cordwell Ln, Millthorpe, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 7WH, UK (53.28404, -1.53118)
Place
Carpenter House was the home of author and philosopher Edward Carpenter until 1922. Millthorpe consist of a mixture of dwellings, ancient cottages and farms on the one hand and a suburban overflow on the other. In the summer of 1922, Edward Carpenter (then age 78) left Derbyshire and his beloved Millthorpe. He moved South with George Merrill to Mountside, Guildford and a villa at the top of the hill of Mountside with fine views over the town, which they named Millthorpe. Mountside rises up just five minutes walk from Guildford station, and the regular train service that can bring you to central London within 40 minutes; a steep residential road, quiet and suburban, that gives glimpses out over Guildford as you climb. A left hand turn at the top of the road also leads to Mountside Cemetery where Edward Carpenter and George Merrill are buried together. If you walk out through the lower part of the cemetary you also pass the grave of Lewis Caroll. Taking an alternative path back to Mountside road, a cutting that ran along the back of the houses, at the far end there is Millthorpe.
Life
Who: Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 – June 28, 1929) and George Merrill (1866 – January 10, 1928)
Edward Carpenter was a socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early LGBT activist. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt Whitman. He corresponded with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, James Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, E D Morel, William Morris, E R Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner. When his father Charles Carpenter died in 1882, he left his son a considerable fortune. This enabled Carpenter to quit his lectureship to start a simpler life of market gardening in Millthorpe, near Barlow, Derbyshire. On his return from India in 1891, he met George Merrill (1866-1928), a working class man also from Sheffield, and the two men struck up a relationship, eventually moving in together in 1898. E. M. Forster was also close friends with the couple, who on a visit to Millthorpe in 1912 was inspired to write his gay-themed novel, “Maurice.” Forster records in his diary that, Merrill, “touched my backside - gently and just above the buttocks. I believe he touched most people’s. The sensation was unusual and I still remember it, as I remember the position of a long vanished tooth. He made a profound impression on me and touched a creative spring." The relationship between Carpenter and Merrill was the template for the relationship between Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper in Forster’s novel. Carpenter was also a significant influence on the author D. H. Lawrence, whose “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” can be seen as a heterosexualised Maurice.
Queer Places, Vol. 2 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906312
ISBN-10: 1532906315
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Erna Fergusson (January 10, 1888 – July 30, 1964)
Erna Fergusson was an avid writer, historian, and storyteller, who documented the culture and history of New Mexico for more than forty years.
Born: January 10, 1888, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Died: July 30, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Education: Columbia University
University of New Mexico
Lived: 1021 Orchard Pl NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA (35.09306, -106.65764)
Erna Fergusson was an avid writer, historian, and storyteller, who documented the culture and history of New Mexico for more than forty years.
Address: 1021 Orchard Pl NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA (35.09306, -106.65764)
Type: Private Property
Life
Who: Erna Mary Fergusson (January 10, 1888 – July 30, 1964)
Erna was born to a wealthy and well-known family. Her mother was Clara Mary Huning, the daughter of a very successful merchant by the name of Franz Huning. He was an investor of real estate and owned and operated a downtown mercantile store and flourmill. Erna Fergusson’s father was Harvey Butler Fergusson, a prominent lawyer in White Oaks, New Mexico. It was later in 1883 that he moved to Albuquerque, where he became friends with Franz Huning. Four years later in 1887 Clara Mary Huning and Harvey Fergusson were married. Erna, the eldest of four children, grew up in La Glorieta, which was her primary residence in New Mexico. However, between 1897 and 1899 Erna spent her formative years in Washington, D.C. when her father served as a delegate to the United States. In 1906 Erna graduated from Central High School in Albuquerque. Prior to graduating, she did preparatory work at the University of New Mexico (1904) and the Collegiate School in Los Angeles (1905). She began teaching in the Albuquerque public schools while at the same time furthering her education. In 1912 she graduated from UNM with a Bachelor of Pedagogy Degree. A year later Erna completed her Masters in History from Columbia University in New York. After teaching a while in Chatham hall in Virginia she decided to return home and continue teaching in Albuquerque. Throughout her years Erna had various other occupations. During World War II she took a job with the Red Cross as the home service secretary and State Supervisor for New Mexico. After the war she became a reporter for the Albuquerque Herald, writing various articles regarding her hometown. She was commissioned in 1926 by Century Magazine to write “Redskins to Railroads” and “From Rodeo to Rotary” two of her pieces, which many years later along with other short works became published. While at the Herald, Erna also began a touring company alongside friend Ethel Hickey. The touring company, Koshare Tours, provided guests with tours of the southwest, introducing them to native cultures. Koshare Tours were so successful that Fred Harvey, a famous and well to do western hotel and restaurateur, bought the touring company and hired Erna Fergusson to direct the new endeavor—Indian Detour Service. In 1931 Erna Fergusson published her first book “Dancing Gods,” which was about Indian ceremonials. Several histories and numerous travel books followed after her success with “Dancing Gods.” In her 1934 book, "Mexican Cookbook,” Fergusson was perhaps the first to correct the English-speakers notion that "frijoles refritos" meant "refried beans", but the correction never reached the popular consciousness. In 1942 Erna Fergusson helped found the Albuquerque Historical Society. The year after she was awarded as an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New Mexico. She died in 1964.
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, 1888, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Died: July 30, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Education: Columbia University
University of New Mexico
Lived: 1021 Orchard Pl NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA (35.09306, -106.65764)
Erna Fergusson was an avid writer, historian, and storyteller, who documented the culture and history of New Mexico for more than forty years.
Address: 1021 Orchard Pl NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA (35.09306, -106.65764)
Type: Private Property
Life
Who: Erna Mary Fergusson (January 10, 1888 – July 30, 1964)
Erna was born to a wealthy and well-known family. Her mother was Clara Mary Huning, the daughter of a very successful merchant by the name of Franz Huning. He was an investor of real estate and owned and operated a downtown mercantile store and flourmill. Erna Fergusson’s father was Harvey Butler Fergusson, a prominent lawyer in White Oaks, New Mexico. It was later in 1883 that he moved to Albuquerque, where he became friends with Franz Huning. Four years later in 1887 Clara Mary Huning and Harvey Fergusson were married. Erna, the eldest of four children, grew up in La Glorieta, which was her primary residence in New Mexico. However, between 1897 and 1899 Erna spent her formative years in Washington, D.C. when her father served as a delegate to the United States. In 1906 Erna graduated from Central High School in Albuquerque. Prior to graduating, she did preparatory work at the University of New Mexico (1904) and the Collegiate School in Los Angeles (1905). She began teaching in the Albuquerque public schools while at the same time furthering her education. In 1912 she graduated from UNM with a Bachelor of Pedagogy Degree. A year later Erna completed her Masters in History from Columbia University in New York. After teaching a while in Chatham hall in Virginia she decided to return home and continue teaching in Albuquerque. Throughout her years Erna had various other occupations. During World War II she took a job with the Red Cross as the home service secretary and State Supervisor for New Mexico. After the war she became a reporter for the Albuquerque Herald, writing various articles regarding her hometown. She was commissioned in 1926 by Century Magazine to write “Redskins to Railroads” and “From Rodeo to Rotary” two of her pieces, which many years later along with other short works became published. While at the Herald, Erna also began a touring company alongside friend Ethel Hickey. The touring company, Koshare Tours, provided guests with tours of the southwest, introducing them to native cultures. Koshare Tours were so successful that Fred Harvey, a famous and well to do western hotel and restaurateur, bought the touring company and hired Erna Fergusson to direct the new endeavor—Indian Detour Service. In 1931 Erna Fergusson published her first book “Dancing Gods,” which was about Indian ceremonials. Several histories and numerous travel books followed after her success with “Dancing Gods.” In her 1934 book, "Mexican Cookbook,” Fergusson was perhaps the first to correct the English-speakers notion that "frijoles refritos" meant "refried beans", but the correction never reached the popular consciousness. In 1942 Erna Fergusson helped found the Albuquerque Historical Society. The year after she was awarded as an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New Mexico. She died in 1964.
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
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Coco Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971)
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and namesake of the Chanel brand.
Born: August 19, 1883, Saumur, France
Died: January 10, 1971, Paris, France
Full name: Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel
Books: Chanel
Siblings: Lucien Chanel, Pierre Chanel, Antoinette Chanel, Augustin Chanel, Alphonse Chanel, Julia Chanel
Lived: Villa La Pausa, 12B Avenue de la Torraca, 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (43.76102, 7.46707)
Buried: Cimetière du Bois-de-Vaux, Lausanne, District de Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, Plot: Section 9
It’s hardly surprising that the allure of the Côte d’Azur cast its spell over France’s grande dame of fashion, Coco Chanel. Villa La Pausa, situated in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin between Monte Carlo and Menton, was built for Chanel and her lover, the Duke of Westminster.
Address: 12B Avenue de la Torraca, 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (43.76102, 7.46707)
Type: Private Property
Phone: +33 4 93 83 51 20
Place
Built in 1927, Design by Robert Streitz, Interior Design by Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
La Pausa is a large detached villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It was owned by Chanel until 1953. La Pausa was sold by Chanel to the Hungarian publisher Emery Reves. The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spent roughly a third year at La Pausa from 1956 to 1958 with Reves and his wife, Wendy, and wrote and edited part of his “History of the English Speaking Peoples” there. La Pausa was occupied by Wendy Reves until 2007. The principal rooms of La Pausa and its significant art collection were recreated at the Dallas Museum of Art during her lifetime and under her direction. The Reves wing was opened in 1985. Situated above the village of Roquebrune, the house enjoys views toward Menton and the French border with Italy on one side, and Monaco on the other. Its name refers to the legend that Mary Magdalene "paused" near here on her journey from Jerusalem following the crucifixion of Jesus. Guests hosted by the Reves with Churchill included Noël Coward, Somerset Maugham and Edward Molyneux. Other notable high society guests hosted by the Reves at La Pausa included the aristocrats Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and the actors Greta Garbo, Errol Flynn and Clark Gable. Following Emery Reves’s death in 1981, the Dallas Museum of Art in the United States approached Wendy Reves knowing that there was a possibility that her art collection at La Pausa might be given to a museum. In exchange for the 1985 donation Reves insisted that the museum recreate six of the principal rooms at La Pausa, and display the collection there as she had arranged it. The collection of 1,400 objet d’art is displayed at the museum as the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection in a reconstruction of five rooms from La Pausa. The villa’s central courtyard and patio were reconstructed at the museum along with the villa’s dining room, library, salon, bedroom, and hall, situated in a purpose built 16,500-square-foot wing designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. La Pausa has now been acquired by the House of Chanel again, with plans to restore it to its original decor and spirit.
Life
Who: Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971)
Chanel bought the five acre plot on which La Pausa was built for 1.8 million French francs in Feb. 1929. The plot had formerly been part of the hunting grounds of the ruling family of Monaco, the Grimaldis, and contained wild olive and orange groves. The villa was built less than a year later. The final cost of the villa was 6 million francs, a large sum for the time. It is not clear whether Chanel or her lover, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster financed the building and furnishing of La Pausa. Architect Robert Streitz sought to build “the ideal Mediterranean villa.” The design of the house modelled on the XII century convent-orphanage in Aubazine, in the department of Corréze, which Chanel spent her childhood. A stone staircase leads up from the main entrance hall and a cloister encloses a courtyard. A design of five windows is repeated throughout the house, in tribute to Chanel’s perfume, Chanel No. 5. Chanel ordered more than 20,000 curved tiles to be handmade for the roof, and furnished the house sparsely in shades of white and beige. Each bathroom has a servants entrance. Chanel would take Le Train Bleu from Paris every month to inspect the progress of the building. If Chanel was unable to make the trip, local craftsmen would be sent to Paris to meet her. The colour scheme of the house was beige, which included a beige piano. Chanel may have been assisted in her design of the interior of La Pausa by Stéphane Boudin, the president of the interior design firm Maison Jansen. The central villa is 10,000 sq ft in size, with two smaller villas built for guests. The main house consists of seven bedrooms, with three living rooms, a dining room, two kitchens and staff quarters. Streitz had previously restored another local villa for Chanel’s friend, Count Jean de Segonzac. La Pausa contains three wings that face onto a shaded courtyard, with the rooms containing large fireplaces. The rooms were filled by Chanel with XVI century English oak furniture, given to her by the Duke of Westminster; English oak was also used for floors and panelling. The large reception rooms were lit by wrought-iron chandeliers from Spain. The poet Pierre Reverdy stayed at La Pausa for long periods during the 1930s, and the poet Paul Iribe, Chanel’s lover, collapsed and died while playing tennis with Chanel at La Pausa in 1935. Guests of Chanel’s at La Pausa included Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Luchino Visconti. La Pausa was profiled by American Vogue magazine in 1938, with the garden described as containing "groves of orange trees, great slopes of lavender, masses of purple iris, and huge clusters of climbing roses." Twenty olive trees from Antibes were replanted in the garden. The designer Roderick Cameron said that at La Pausa, Chanel was the first to cultivate lavender and other flora previously regarded as "poor plants.” The architect of La Pausa, Robert Streitz, was a member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in WWII. Streitz hid in La Pausa’s cellars from where he transmitted covert messages. Jewish refugees were also able to utilise La Pausa, using its gardens as a staging post in their escape from France to the Italian border. During the German occupation of France, Chanel made several visits to La Pausa with her lover, the German spy Baron von Dincklage. The design of La Pausa also influenced Chanel’s fashion designs, with her collections evoking the pink and grey palettes of the house and landscape. In 2007 Chanel released a perfume inspired by La Pausa, 28 La Pausa, as part of their "Les Exclusifs" collection. It was created by Chanel’s perfumer Jacques Polge. Coco Chanel died in 1971 and is buried at Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery (Chemin du Bois-de-Vaux, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland).
Queer Places, Vol. 3 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906695
ISBN-10: 1532906692
Release Date: July 24, 2016
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Renowned Fashion Designer Coco Chanel (August 19, 1883 –January 10, 1971) was born a peasant and raised in an orphanage. She grew up with a gift of fashion and a keen awareness of social trends. Chanel died in 1971 at the age of 88. The House of Chanel still exists today. She is buried at Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery (Chemin du Bois-de-Vaux, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland); her tomb is surrounded by five stone lions.
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: August 19, 1883, Saumur, France
Died: January 10, 1971, Paris, France
Full name: Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel
Books: Chanel
Siblings: Lucien Chanel, Pierre Chanel, Antoinette Chanel, Augustin Chanel, Alphonse Chanel, Julia Chanel
Lived: Villa La Pausa, 12B Avenue de la Torraca, 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (43.76102, 7.46707)
Buried: Cimetière du Bois-de-Vaux, Lausanne, District de Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, Plot: Section 9
It’s hardly surprising that the allure of the Côte d’Azur cast its spell over France’s grande dame of fashion, Coco Chanel. Villa La Pausa, situated in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin between Monte Carlo and Menton, was built for Chanel and her lover, the Duke of Westminster.
Address: 12B Avenue de la Torraca, 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (43.76102, 7.46707)
Type: Private Property
Phone: +33 4 93 83 51 20
Place
Built in 1927, Design by Robert Streitz, Interior Design by Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
La Pausa is a large detached villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It was owned by Chanel until 1953. La Pausa was sold by Chanel to the Hungarian publisher Emery Reves. The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spent roughly a third year at La Pausa from 1956 to 1958 with Reves and his wife, Wendy, and wrote and edited part of his “History of the English Speaking Peoples” there. La Pausa was occupied by Wendy Reves until 2007. The principal rooms of La Pausa and its significant art collection were recreated at the Dallas Museum of Art during her lifetime and under her direction. The Reves wing was opened in 1985. Situated above the village of Roquebrune, the house enjoys views toward Menton and the French border with Italy on one side, and Monaco on the other. Its name refers to the legend that Mary Magdalene "paused" near here on her journey from Jerusalem following the crucifixion of Jesus. Guests hosted by the Reves with Churchill included Noël Coward, Somerset Maugham and Edward Molyneux. Other notable high society guests hosted by the Reves at La Pausa included the aristocrats Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and the actors Greta Garbo, Errol Flynn and Clark Gable. Following Emery Reves’s death in 1981, the Dallas Museum of Art in the United States approached Wendy Reves knowing that there was a possibility that her art collection at La Pausa might be given to a museum. In exchange for the 1985 donation Reves insisted that the museum recreate six of the principal rooms at La Pausa, and display the collection there as she had arranged it. The collection of 1,400 objet d’art is displayed at the museum as the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection in a reconstruction of five rooms from La Pausa. The villa’s central courtyard and patio were reconstructed at the museum along with the villa’s dining room, library, salon, bedroom, and hall, situated in a purpose built 16,500-square-foot wing designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. La Pausa has now been acquired by the House of Chanel again, with plans to restore it to its original decor and spirit.
Life
Who: Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971)
Chanel bought the five acre plot on which La Pausa was built for 1.8 million French francs in Feb. 1929. The plot had formerly been part of the hunting grounds of the ruling family of Monaco, the Grimaldis, and contained wild olive and orange groves. The villa was built less than a year later. The final cost of the villa was 6 million francs, a large sum for the time. It is not clear whether Chanel or her lover, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster financed the building and furnishing of La Pausa. Architect Robert Streitz sought to build “the ideal Mediterranean villa.” The design of the house modelled on the XII century convent-orphanage in Aubazine, in the department of Corréze, which Chanel spent her childhood. A stone staircase leads up from the main entrance hall and a cloister encloses a courtyard. A design of five windows is repeated throughout the house, in tribute to Chanel’s perfume, Chanel No. 5. Chanel ordered more than 20,000 curved tiles to be handmade for the roof, and furnished the house sparsely in shades of white and beige. Each bathroom has a servants entrance. Chanel would take Le Train Bleu from Paris every month to inspect the progress of the building. If Chanel was unable to make the trip, local craftsmen would be sent to Paris to meet her. The colour scheme of the house was beige, which included a beige piano. Chanel may have been assisted in her design of the interior of La Pausa by Stéphane Boudin, the president of the interior design firm Maison Jansen. The central villa is 10,000 sq ft in size, with two smaller villas built for guests. The main house consists of seven bedrooms, with three living rooms, a dining room, two kitchens and staff quarters. Streitz had previously restored another local villa for Chanel’s friend, Count Jean de Segonzac. La Pausa contains three wings that face onto a shaded courtyard, with the rooms containing large fireplaces. The rooms were filled by Chanel with XVI century English oak furniture, given to her by the Duke of Westminster; English oak was also used for floors and panelling. The large reception rooms were lit by wrought-iron chandeliers from Spain. The poet Pierre Reverdy stayed at La Pausa for long periods during the 1930s, and the poet Paul Iribe, Chanel’s lover, collapsed and died while playing tennis with Chanel at La Pausa in 1935. Guests of Chanel’s at La Pausa included Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Luchino Visconti. La Pausa was profiled by American Vogue magazine in 1938, with the garden described as containing "groves of orange trees, great slopes of lavender, masses of purple iris, and huge clusters of climbing roses." Twenty olive trees from Antibes were replanted in the garden. The designer Roderick Cameron said that at La Pausa, Chanel was the first to cultivate lavender and other flora previously regarded as "poor plants.” The architect of La Pausa, Robert Streitz, was a member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in WWII. Streitz hid in La Pausa’s cellars from where he transmitted covert messages. Jewish refugees were also able to utilise La Pausa, using its gardens as a staging post in their escape from France to the Italian border. During the German occupation of France, Chanel made several visits to La Pausa with her lover, the German spy Baron von Dincklage. The design of La Pausa also influenced Chanel’s fashion designs, with her collections evoking the pink and grey palettes of the house and landscape. In 2007 Chanel released a perfume inspired by La Pausa, 28 La Pausa, as part of their "Les Exclusifs" collection. It was created by Chanel’s perfumer Jacques Polge. Coco Chanel died in 1971 and is buried at Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery (Chemin du Bois-de-Vaux, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland).
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Renowned Fashion Designer Coco Chanel (August 19, 1883 –January 10, 1971) was born a peasant and raised in an orphanage. She grew up with a gift of fashion and a keen awareness of social trends. Chanel died in 1971 at the age of 88. The House of Chanel still exists today. She is buried at Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery (Chemin du Bois-de-Vaux, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland); her tomb is surrounded by five stone lions.
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Caroline M. Branson (March 12, 1837 – January 10, 1918)
Lived: 306 Liberty St, Rockland, MA 02370, USA (42.1319, -70.90751)
Buried: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Rockland, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Buried alongside: Maria Louise Pool
Maria Louise Pool was an American writer. She tended to write about the human character in mundane situations, usually in a New England setting; dogs also had a prominent role in many of her stories. She often travelled around the country, and had lived in various places far from her birth but toward the end of her life she returned to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and frail sister. Her work was reviewed extensively, as by the New York Times, but has lapsed into obscurity. She was an influence upon the young Canadian-American writer Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 — August 1929), who became friends with Pool's companion Caroline M. Branson. When Pool died, the Rockland newspaper, named, among the survivors of Pool, Caroline, her "literary companion.” Branson and MacLane lived together from 1902 to 1908 in the house Branson and Pool had lived in. Pool and Branson are buried together in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Rockland, Massachusetts. Their house still stands on Liberty Street in Rockland, near the corner of East Water Street, and next to the 1770's cape where she was born. A Boston School portrait of Pool hangs in Rockland's Memorial Library.
Together from 1866 to 1898: 32 years.
Caroline M. Branson (March 12, 1837 – January 10, 1918)
Maria Louise Pool (August 21, 1841 – May 19, 1898)
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The cottage at 306 Liberty Street, Rockland, was the Daniel Lane Jr. House, presumibily built by young Daniel about the time he married Hannah Andrews in 1774.
Address: 306 Liberty St, Rockland, MA 02370, USA (42.1319, -70.90751)
Type: Private Property
Place
Built about 1774 or 1775
One room was used as a temporary meeting place for religious services in time of the smallpox epidemic of 1775-76. Around 1820 Daniel Lane Jr. served as a justice of the peace, and he probably convened courts in the main room of the house. Maria Louise Pool, the Victorian novelist, was born here. She was a grand-daughter of Daniel Lane Jr., her parents, Elias Pool and Lydia Lane, having come into possession of the homeplace about the time Daniel Lane Jr. died in 1831. Later in her life, Pool built the house next door at 300 Liberty Street. She was more interested in ecology than society. She was a great lover of dogs and was given to solitary strolls with her pets, especially in the earliest morning hours. After Pool’s death in 1898, Judge George W. Kelly bought her new house.
Life
Who: Maria Louise Pool (August 20, 1841 – May 18, 1898) and Caroline M. Branson (March 12, 1837 – January 10, 1918)
Maria Louise Pool was an influence upon the young Canadian-American writer Mary MacLane (1881-1929), who became friends with Pool’s "literary companion" Caroline M. Branson. Branson and MacLane lived together from 1902 to 1908 in the house Branson and Pool had lived in. Caroline M. Branson and Maria Louise Pool are buried together in Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Rockland, MA 02370).
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Buried: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Rockland, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Buried alongside: Maria Louise Pool
Maria Louise Pool was an American writer. She tended to write about the human character in mundane situations, usually in a New England setting; dogs also had a prominent role in many of her stories. She often travelled around the country, and had lived in various places far from her birth but toward the end of her life she returned to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and frail sister. Her work was reviewed extensively, as by the New York Times, but has lapsed into obscurity. She was an influence upon the young Canadian-American writer Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 — August 1929), who became friends with Pool's companion Caroline M. Branson. When Pool died, the Rockland newspaper, named, among the survivors of Pool, Caroline, her "literary companion.” Branson and MacLane lived together from 1902 to 1908 in the house Branson and Pool had lived in. Pool and Branson are buried together in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Rockland, Massachusetts. Their house still stands on Liberty Street in Rockland, near the corner of East Water Street, and next to the 1770's cape where she was born. A Boston School portrait of Pool hangs in Rockland's Memorial Library.
Together from 1866 to 1898: 32 years.
Caroline M. Branson (March 12, 1837 – January 10, 1918)
Maria Louise Pool (August 21, 1841 – May 19, 1898)
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The cottage at 306 Liberty Street, Rockland, was the Daniel Lane Jr. House, presumibily built by young Daniel about the time he married Hannah Andrews in 1774.
Address: 306 Liberty St, Rockland, MA 02370, USA (42.1319, -70.90751)
Type: Private Property
Place
Built about 1774 or 1775
One room was used as a temporary meeting place for religious services in time of the smallpox epidemic of 1775-76. Around 1820 Daniel Lane Jr. served as a justice of the peace, and he probably convened courts in the main room of the house. Maria Louise Pool, the Victorian novelist, was born here. She was a grand-daughter of Daniel Lane Jr., her parents, Elias Pool and Lydia Lane, having come into possession of the homeplace about the time Daniel Lane Jr. died in 1831. Later in her life, Pool built the house next door at 300 Liberty Street. She was more interested in ecology than society. She was a great lover of dogs and was given to solitary strolls with her pets, especially in the earliest morning hours. After Pool’s death in 1898, Judge George W. Kelly bought her new house.
Life
Who: Maria Louise Pool (August 20, 1841 – May 18, 1898) and Caroline M. Branson (March 12, 1837 – January 10, 1918)
Maria Louise Pool was an influence upon the young Canadian-American writer Mary MacLane (1881-1929), who became friends with Pool’s "literary companion" Caroline M. Branson. Branson and MacLane lived together from 1902 to 1908 in the house Branson and Pool had lived in. Caroline M. Branson and Maria Louise Pool are buried together in Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Rockland, MA 02370).
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Carl Winter (January 10, 1906 – May 21, 1966)
Carl Winter was a British art historian and museum curator. He worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum's collection of English watercolours and miniature portraits before moving to the Fitzwilliam Museum ...
Born: January 10, 1906
Died: 1966
Studied: University of Oxford
Association: Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RB, UK (52.19953, 0.11994)
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It receives around 470,000 visitors annually (2011–12). Admission is free.
Address: Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RB, UK (52.19953, 0.11994)
Type: Museum (open to public)
Phone: +44 1223 332900
Place
The Museum is the lead museum for the University of Cambridge Museums consortium, one of 16 Major Partner Museum services funded by Arts Council England to lead the development of the museums sector. The current Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum is Tim Knox. The museum was founded in 1816 with the legacy of the library and art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam. The bequest also included £100,000 "to cause to be erected a good substantial museum repository". The collection was initially placed in the old Perse School building in Free School Lane. It was moved in 1842 to the Old Schools (at that time the University Library). The "Founder's Building" itself was designed by George Basevi, completed by C. R. Cockerell and opened in 1848; the entrance hall is by Edward Middleton Barry and was completed in 1875. The first stone of the new building was laid by Gilbert Ainslie in 1837. A further large bequest was made to the University in 1912 by Charles Brinsley Marlay, including a sum of £80,000 and a collection of 84 pictures. A two-storey extension, paid for partly by the Courtauld family, was added in 1931. The portraits of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines by Florentine artist Carlo Dolci hang in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Also the personal collection of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts are hosted at the Museum.
Life
Who: Carl Winter (January 10, 1906– May 21, 1966)
Carl Winter was a British art historian and museum curator. Winter was born in Melbourne, the son of Carl Winter and his wife Ethel (née Hardy). He was educated and Xavier College and Newman College, University of Melbourne. He came to England in 1928 and attended Exeter College, Oxford. He married Theodora (née Barlow) in 1936; they had two sons and a daughter, but were divorced in 1953. He was appointed as an Assistant Keeper in the Departments of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and of Paintings, at the Victoria & Albert Museum 1931, where he worked with Basil Long, leading the department after Long's death in 1936. He was appointed as Deputy Keeper at the V&A in 1945, but moved to become Director and Morley Curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1946, and also a fellow of Trinity College, where he remained until his death in 1966. He published “Elizabethan Miniatures” in 1943, and “The British School of Miniature Portrait Painters” in 1948. Along with Patrick Trevor-Roper and Peter Wildeblood, Winter gave evidence to the Wolfenden Committee, whose report led in 1967 to the decriminalization of sex between adult male homosexuals. He gave evidence anonymously as "Mr White". His testimony to the Committee has been portrayed on-screen in the BBC dramatisation, “Consenting Adults.”
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Born: January 10, 1906
Died: 1966
Studied: University of Oxford
Association: Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RB, UK (52.19953, 0.11994)
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It receives around 470,000 visitors annually (2011–12). Admission is free.
Address: Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RB, UK (52.19953, 0.11994)
Type: Museum (open to public)
Phone: +44 1223 332900
Place
The Museum is the lead museum for the University of Cambridge Museums consortium, one of 16 Major Partner Museum services funded by Arts Council England to lead the development of the museums sector. The current Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum is Tim Knox. The museum was founded in 1816 with the legacy of the library and art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam. The bequest also included £100,000 "to cause to be erected a good substantial museum repository". The collection was initially placed in the old Perse School building in Free School Lane. It was moved in 1842 to the Old Schools (at that time the University Library). The "Founder's Building" itself was designed by George Basevi, completed by C. R. Cockerell and opened in 1848; the entrance hall is by Edward Middleton Barry and was completed in 1875. The first stone of the new building was laid by Gilbert Ainslie in 1837. A further large bequest was made to the University in 1912 by Charles Brinsley Marlay, including a sum of £80,000 and a collection of 84 pictures. A two-storey extension, paid for partly by the Courtauld family, was added in 1931. The portraits of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines by Florentine artist Carlo Dolci hang in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Also the personal collection of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts are hosted at the Museum.
Life
Who: Carl Winter (January 10, 1906– May 21, 1966)
Carl Winter was a British art historian and museum curator. Winter was born in Melbourne, the son of Carl Winter and his wife Ethel (née Hardy). He was educated and Xavier College and Newman College, University of Melbourne. He came to England in 1928 and attended Exeter College, Oxford. He married Theodora (née Barlow) in 1936; they had two sons and a daughter, but were divorced in 1953. He was appointed as an Assistant Keeper in the Departments of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and of Paintings, at the Victoria & Albert Museum 1931, where he worked with Basil Long, leading the department after Long's death in 1936. He was appointed as Deputy Keeper at the V&A in 1945, but moved to become Director and Morley Curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1946, and also a fellow of Trinity College, where he remained until his death in 1966. He published “Elizabethan Miniatures” in 1943, and “The British School of Miniature Portrait Painters” in 1948. Along with Patrick Trevor-Roper and Peter Wildeblood, Winter gave evidence to the Wolfenden Committee, whose report led in 1967 to the decriminalization of sex between adult male homosexuals. He gave evidence anonymously as "Mr White". His testimony to the Committee has been portrayed on-screen in the BBC dramatisation, “Consenting Adults.”
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Aaron Bridges (January 10, 1918 - November 3, 2003)
Lived: 315 Convent Avenue
William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include Take the 'A' Train, Chelsea Bridge, and Lush Life. Mercer Ellington, son of the Duke, introduced Aaron Bridgers to Strayhorn as a perspective “partner”. A year after their meeting, both Strayhorn and Bridgers moved in together. They were describe as being very affectionate toward one another. Even more importantly, those who knew them as a couple were respectful of the two men and their relationship. Bridgers moved to Paris in 1947. Strayhorn was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 1964, which eventually caused his death in 1967. Strayhorn finally succumbed in the early morning on May 31, 1967, in the company of his partner, Bill Grove. It has often been falsely reported that Strayhorn died in Lena Horne's arms. By her own account, Horne was touring in Europe when she received the news of Strayhorn's death. His ashes were scattered in the Hudson River by a gathering of his closest friends.
Together from 1937 to 1947: 10 years.
Aaron Bridgers (January 10, 1918 - November 3, 2003)
William Thomas “Sweet Pea” Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967)
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In 1939, Jazz great Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) moved into a ground floor apartment in a building on 315 Convent Avenue, 10031 with his lover, jazz pianist Aaron Bridgers. Bridgers moved to Paris in 1947, but Strayhorn continued to live here until 1950. While living in this apartment, Strayhorn wrote "Take the A Train" (1941); "Lotus Blossom" (1946); "Lush Life" (1949), and most of the music for the musicals Beggars Holiday and Jump for Joy. Strayhorn died on May 31, 1967. After his funeral, as he had requested, a small group of his closest friends, including Duke Ellington, gathered at the 79th Street Boat Basin where they scattered his ashes along with handfuls of rose petals into the Hudson River. They continued to gather there on the anniversary of his death for many years to come, scattering roses into the waters and watching the currents take them away, out to sea.
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William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include Take the 'A' Train, Chelsea Bridge, and Lush Life. Mercer Ellington, son of the Duke, introduced Aaron Bridgers to Strayhorn as a perspective “partner”. A year after their meeting, both Strayhorn and Bridgers moved in together. They were describe as being very affectionate toward one another. Even more importantly, those who knew them as a couple were respectful of the two men and their relationship. Bridgers moved to Paris in 1947. Strayhorn was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 1964, which eventually caused his death in 1967. Strayhorn finally succumbed in the early morning on May 31, 1967, in the company of his partner, Bill Grove. It has often been falsely reported that Strayhorn died in Lena Horne's arms. By her own account, Horne was touring in Europe when she received the news of Strayhorn's death. His ashes were scattered in the Hudson River by a gathering of his closest friends.
Together from 1937 to 1947: 10 years.
Aaron Bridgers (January 10, 1918 - November 3, 2003)
William Thomas “Sweet Pea” Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967)
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In 1939, Jazz great Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) moved into a ground floor apartment in a building on 315 Convent Avenue, 10031 with his lover, jazz pianist Aaron Bridgers. Bridgers moved to Paris in 1947, but Strayhorn continued to live here until 1950. While living in this apartment, Strayhorn wrote "Take the A Train" (1941); "Lotus Blossom" (1946); "Lush Life" (1949), and most of the music for the musicals Beggars Holiday and Jump for Joy. Strayhorn died on May 31, 1967. After his funeral, as he had requested, a small group of his closest friends, including Duke Ellington, gathered at the 79th Street Boat Basin where they scattered his ashes along with handfuls of rose petals into the Hudson River. They continued to gather there on the anniversary of his death for many years to come, scattering roses into the waters and watching the currents take them away, out to sea.
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January 9, 2017
William Morris Meredith (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007)
William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.
Born: January 9, 1919, New York City, New York, United States
Died: May 30, 2007, New London, Connecticut, United States
Education: Princeton University
Books: Love letter from an impossible land, more
Awards: United States Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, more
People also search for: Richard Harteis, Andre Larson, David Mermelstein
Buried: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA, Plot: Bryn Mawr 321
William Meredith was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. In 1988, Meredith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a Los Angeles Times Book Award for Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems and in 1997, he won the National Book Award for Poetry for Effort at Speech. Meredith taught at Princeton University, the University of Hawaii and at Connecticut College from 1955 to 1983. In an inspired act of matchmaking, Maxine Kumin introduced Meredith and poet Richard Harteis around 1971, and despite the 28-year age difference William and Richard were devoted to each other for the rest of William’s life. In 1983, he suffered a stroke and was immobilized for two years. Because of the stroke, he suffered with expressive aphasia, which affected his ability to produce language. Meredith ended his teaching career and could not write poetry during this period. Meredith died in New London, Connecticut, near his home in Montville, where he lived with his partner of 36 years. A film about his life, Marathon, premiered on Nov. 19, 2008 in Mystic.
Together from 1971 to 2007: 36 years.
Richard Harteis (born 1946)
William Meredith (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007)
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West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. West Laurel Hill was designed as a rural cemetery and is a "sister" institution to the Laurel Hill Cemetery nearby in Philadelphia.
Address: 215 Belmont Ave, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004, USA (40.01558, -75.22019)
Type: Cemetery (open to public)
Phone: +1 610-664-1591
National Register of Historic Places: 92000991, 1992
Place
West Laurel Hill was the first cemetery to ever map its entire grounds on a smart phone device, enabling visitors to search and navigate to grave locations, and "access photos, video, text and other information." Visitors can also use the app to navigate through tours of the cemetery and visit the grave sites of interesting and famous persons.
Notable queer burials at West Laurel Hill Cemetery:
• Henrietta Cozens (1862-1940). Jessie Willcox Smith met Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley while studying at Drexel with whom she would share talent, mutual interests, and lifelong friendship. Green, Smith, and Oakley became known as "The Red Rose Girls" after the Red Rose Inn in Villanova, Pennsylvania where they lived and worked together for four years beginning in the early 1900s. They leased the inn where they were joined by Oakley's mother, Green's parents, and Henrietta Cozens, who managed the gardens and inn. When the artists lost the lease on the Red Rose Inn in 1904, a farmhouse was remodeled for them in West Mount Airy, Philadelphia by Frank Miles Day. They named their new shared home and workplace "Cogslea", drawn from the initials of their surnames and that of Smith's roommate, Henrietta Cozens. Later Smith had a 16-room house and studio that she called Cogshill built on property near Cogslea. She lived in what was her final home with Cozens, her aunt, and her brother. Never a travel enthusiast, Smith finally agreed to tour Europe in 1933 with the Isabel Crowder, who was Henrietta Cozens' niece, and a nurse. During her trip, her health became poorer and she died at age of 71 in her house at Cogshill in 1935.
• Henry Plumer McIlhenny (1910-1986), American connoisseur of art and antiques, world traveler, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• William Morris Meredith, Jr (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007), American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. Meredith died in New London, Connecticut, near his home in Montville, where he lived with his partner of 36 years, the poet and fiction writer Richard Harteis. A film about his life, “Marathon,” premiered on Nov. 19, 2008 in Mystic, Connecticut.
• Grace Nicholson (1877–1948), American art collector and art dealer, specializing in Native American and Chinese handicrafts. The space she originally designed for her shop is now home to the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California.
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Born: January 9, 1919, New York City, New York, United States
Died: May 30, 2007, New London, Connecticut, United States
Education: Princeton University
Books: Love letter from an impossible land, more
Awards: United States Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, more
People also search for: Richard Harteis, Andre Larson, David Mermelstein
Buried: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA, Plot: Bryn Mawr 321
William Meredith was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. In 1988, Meredith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a Los Angeles Times Book Award for Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems and in 1997, he won the National Book Award for Poetry for Effort at Speech. Meredith taught at Princeton University, the University of Hawaii and at Connecticut College from 1955 to 1983. In an inspired act of matchmaking, Maxine Kumin introduced Meredith and poet Richard Harteis around 1971, and despite the 28-year age difference William and Richard were devoted to each other for the rest of William’s life. In 1983, he suffered a stroke and was immobilized for two years. Because of the stroke, he suffered with expressive aphasia, which affected his ability to produce language. Meredith ended his teaching career and could not write poetry during this period. Meredith died in New London, Connecticut, near his home in Montville, where he lived with his partner of 36 years. A film about his life, Marathon, premiered on Nov. 19, 2008 in Mystic.
Together from 1971 to 2007: 36 years.
Richard Harteis (born 1946)
William Meredith (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007)
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West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. West Laurel Hill was designed as a rural cemetery and is a "sister" institution to the Laurel Hill Cemetery nearby in Philadelphia.
Address: 215 Belmont Ave, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004, USA (40.01558, -75.22019)
Type: Cemetery (open to public)
Phone: +1 610-664-1591
National Register of Historic Places: 92000991, 1992
Place
West Laurel Hill was the first cemetery to ever map its entire grounds on a smart phone device, enabling visitors to search and navigate to grave locations, and "access photos, video, text and other information." Visitors can also use the app to navigate through tours of the cemetery and visit the grave sites of interesting and famous persons.
Notable queer burials at West Laurel Hill Cemetery:
• Henrietta Cozens (1862-1940). Jessie Willcox Smith met Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley while studying at Drexel with whom she would share talent, mutual interests, and lifelong friendship. Green, Smith, and Oakley became known as "The Red Rose Girls" after the Red Rose Inn in Villanova, Pennsylvania where they lived and worked together for four years beginning in the early 1900s. They leased the inn where they were joined by Oakley's mother, Green's parents, and Henrietta Cozens, who managed the gardens and inn. When the artists lost the lease on the Red Rose Inn in 1904, a farmhouse was remodeled for them in West Mount Airy, Philadelphia by Frank Miles Day. They named their new shared home and workplace "Cogslea", drawn from the initials of their surnames and that of Smith's roommate, Henrietta Cozens. Later Smith had a 16-room house and studio that she called Cogshill built on property near Cogslea. She lived in what was her final home with Cozens, her aunt, and her brother. Never a travel enthusiast, Smith finally agreed to tour Europe in 1933 with the Isabel Crowder, who was Henrietta Cozens' niece, and a nurse. During her trip, her health became poorer and she died at age of 71 in her house at Cogshill in 1935.
• Henry Plumer McIlhenny (1910-1986), American connoisseur of art and antiques, world traveler, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• William Morris Meredith, Jr (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007), American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. Meredith died in New London, Connecticut, near his home in Montville, where he lived with his partner of 36 years, the poet and fiction writer Richard Harteis. A film about his life, “Marathon,” premiered on Nov. 19, 2008 in Mystic, Connecticut.
• Grace Nicholson (1877–1948), American art collector and art dealer, specializing in Native American and Chinese handicrafts. The space she originally designed for her shop is now home to the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California.
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William Johnson Cory (January 9, 1823 – June 11, 1892)
William Johnson Cory, born William Johnson, was an English educator and poet.
Born: January 9, 1823, Great Torrington, United Kingdom
Died: June 11, 1892, Hampstead, United Kingdom
Education: King's College, Cambridge
Eton College
Lived: 8 Pilgrim's Lane, NW3
Halsdon House, Halsdon Farm, Dolton, Winkleigh EX19 8RF, UK (50.89548, -4.05255)
8 Pilgrim's Lane, NW3 was the house of William Johnson Cory (1823-1892), poet and teacher, who wrote the poem “Heraclitus” and also the Eton Boating Song. Was dismissed from his position at Eton for an 'indecent' letter to a pupil.
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When he was forced to resign from Eton in 1872 after an "indiscreet letter" which Johnson had written to a pupil was intercepted by the parents and brought to the notice of the headmaster, William Johnson retired to Halsdon and changed his name to Cory (the maiden name of his paternal grandmother) before emigrating for health reasons to Madeira in February, 1878, where he married his cousin Theresa Furse, and had a son. He returned to England in September 1882, settling in Hampstead, where he died on June 11, 1892.
Address: Halsdon Farm, Dolton, Winkleigh EX19 8RF, UK (50.89548, -4.05255)
Type: Private Property
Phone: +44 1805 603635
English Heritage Building ID: 90837 (Grade II, 1988)
Place
Built late XVII century with early XVIII and XIX century additions but possibly a remodelling of an earlier house.
Walls mainly rendered, probably rubble, apart from front are constructed small dressed stone blocks. Hipped slate roof to main block, gable-ended to right-hand wing. 2 rendered axial stacks to main range, one at gable-end of right-hand wing has projecting rendered rubble base with rendered shaft. 2 rendered lateral stacks at rear, one with large rubble base. According to Burke who was writing in 1853 "a very ancient mansion about 200 years ago it was rebuilt in a plain style by Philip Furse Esq", the Furses having held the estate since 1680. This suggests a late XVII century date which is corrobated by the outward appearance of the main range and the panelling in one of its rooms. However, a 2-room wing set back and extending from its right-hand end contains sections of earlier XVII century panelling and it is not clear if this represents some survival of the earlier house or was simple re-used when this range was built. The main part of the house consists of 2 equal sized rooms heated by fireplaces at the rear, separated by a central hall which extends at the rear into a small wing for the staircase. Either side of the stairs is a further rear wing probably for service purposes. Built out and extending along the rear of these wings is a narrow corridor. 1 storey probably XIX century conservatory extension at left-hand end. Various XIX century service additions have been made at the rear of both the principal ranges including a kitchen. The front is probably also an early XIX century addition or modification of the original.
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Who: William Johnson Cory (January 9, 1823 – June 11, 1892)
William Johnson Cory was born at Torrington in Devonshire, on January 9, 1823. He was the son of Charles William Johnson, a merchant, who retired at the early age of thirty, with a modest competence, and married his cousin, Theresa Furse, of Halsdon, near Torrington, to whom he had long been attached. He lived a quiet, upright, peaceable life at Torrington, content with little, and discharging simple, kindly, neighbourly duties, alike removed from ambition and indolence. William Cory had always a deep love of his old home, a strong sense of local sanctities and tender associations. "I hope you will always feel," his mother used to say, "wherever you live, that Torrington belongs to you." He said himself, in later years, "I want to be a Devon man and a Torrington man." His memory lingered over the vine-shaded verandah, the jessamine that grew by the balustrade of the steps, the broad-leaved myrtle that covered the wall of the little yard.
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Born: January 9, 1823, Great Torrington, United Kingdom
Died: June 11, 1892, Hampstead, United Kingdom
Education: King's College, Cambridge
Eton College
Lived: 8 Pilgrim's Lane, NW3
Halsdon House, Halsdon Farm, Dolton, Winkleigh EX19 8RF, UK (50.89548, -4.05255)
8 Pilgrim's Lane, NW3 was the house of William Johnson Cory (1823-1892), poet and teacher, who wrote the poem “Heraclitus” and also the Eton Boating Song. Was dismissed from his position at Eton for an 'indecent' letter to a pupil.
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When he was forced to resign from Eton in 1872 after an "indiscreet letter" which Johnson had written to a pupil was intercepted by the parents and brought to the notice of the headmaster, William Johnson retired to Halsdon and changed his name to Cory (the maiden name of his paternal grandmother) before emigrating for health reasons to Madeira in February, 1878, where he married his cousin Theresa Furse, and had a son. He returned to England in September 1882, settling in Hampstead, where he died on June 11, 1892.
Address: Halsdon Farm, Dolton, Winkleigh EX19 8RF, UK (50.89548, -4.05255)
Type: Private Property
Phone: +44 1805 603635
English Heritage Building ID: 90837 (Grade II, 1988)
Place
Built late XVII century with early XVIII and XIX century additions but possibly a remodelling of an earlier house.
Walls mainly rendered, probably rubble, apart from front are constructed small dressed stone blocks. Hipped slate roof to main block, gable-ended to right-hand wing. 2 rendered axial stacks to main range, one at gable-end of right-hand wing has projecting rendered rubble base with rendered shaft. 2 rendered lateral stacks at rear, one with large rubble base. According to Burke who was writing in 1853 "a very ancient mansion about 200 years ago it was rebuilt in a plain style by Philip Furse Esq", the Furses having held the estate since 1680. This suggests a late XVII century date which is corrobated by the outward appearance of the main range and the panelling in one of its rooms. However, a 2-room wing set back and extending from its right-hand end contains sections of earlier XVII century panelling and it is not clear if this represents some survival of the earlier house or was simple re-used when this range was built. The main part of the house consists of 2 equal sized rooms heated by fireplaces at the rear, separated by a central hall which extends at the rear into a small wing for the staircase. Either side of the stairs is a further rear wing probably for service purposes. Built out and extending along the rear of these wings is a narrow corridor. 1 storey probably XIX century conservatory extension at left-hand end. Various XIX century service additions have been made at the rear of both the principal ranges including a kitchen. The front is probably also an early XIX century addition or modification of the original.
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Who: William Johnson Cory (January 9, 1823 – June 11, 1892)
William Johnson Cory was born at Torrington in Devonshire, on January 9, 1823. He was the son of Charles William Johnson, a merchant, who retired at the early age of thirty, with a modest competence, and married his cousin, Theresa Furse, of Halsdon, near Torrington, to whom he had long been attached. He lived a quiet, upright, peaceable life at Torrington, content with little, and discharging simple, kindly, neighbourly duties, alike removed from ambition and indolence. William Cory had always a deep love of his old home, a strong sense of local sanctities and tender associations. "I hope you will always feel," his mother used to say, "wherever you live, that Torrington belongs to you." He said himself, in later years, "I want to be a Devon man and a Torrington man." His memory lingered over the vine-shaded verandah, the jessamine that grew by the balustrade of the steps, the broad-leaved myrtle that covered the wall of the little yard.
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Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – March 24, 1939)
Richard Halliburton was an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—36 cents—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career.
Born: January 9, 1900, Brownsville, Tennessee, United States
Died: March 24, 1939, Pacific Ocean
Movies: India Speaks
Parents: Wesley Halliburton, Nelle Nance Halliburton
Siblings: Wesley Halliburton Jr.
Education: Lawrenceville School
Memphis University School
Princeton University
Lived: Hangover House, Laguna Beach, 31172 Ceanothus Dr, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA (33.50984, -117.74785)
Buried: Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
Architecture historian and writer Ted Wells considers Hangover House, which Richard Halliburton commissioned, one of the "best modern houses in the United States."
Address: 31172 Ceanothus Dr, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA (33.50984, -117.74785)
Type: Private Property
Place
Hangover House (also known as the Halliburton House) was designed and built by William Alexander Levy for his friend the travel writer Richard Halliburton. Constructed in 1938 on a Laguna Beach, California, hilltop, the house, boasting commanding views of the Pacific Ocean, was built with three bedrooms, one each for Halliburton, Alexander, and Halliburton's lover Paul Mooney, who was also Halliburton's editor and ghostwriter. Alexander drew upon European modern architecture and created flat-roofed boxes of concrete and glass. He hoped to create a house that, like the international modern spirit of Halliburton, soared above the clouds. Mies van der Rohe's work and his experimental concrete buildings of the 1920s, along with Le Corbusier's L'Esprit Nouveau Pavilion (1924–25) and his famous Villa Savoye (1928–29), influenced Alexander. Concrete and steel were the main materials used in its construction. Glass blocks formed part of the wall along the gallery that looked into a canyon several hundred feet below. A huge bastionlike retaining wall outside the main building made the house appear safe from intrusion and Olympian in its detachment. Alexander was a novice architect, a recent graduate of the New York University School of Architecture and close friend of Paul Mooney. Mooney managed the construction of the house, and offered occasional design advice, suggesting the creation of a small pond behind the house which, for its shape and size, he called "Clark Gable's ears." A mutual friend of Levy and Mooney, Charles Wolfsohn (born 1912), a penthouse garden designer, did the flower landscaping. The house, built of concrete and steel and bastion-like in appearance, contained a spacious living room, a spacious dining room and three bedrooms. Because of its position, perched 400 feet (120m) above a sheer canyon, it was called "Hangover House" by Mooney, and this title was cast into a retaining wall on the site. The nickname "Hangover House" is a pun on both the building's location overlooking the cliffs, and the alcohol consumed there. When he first saw the completed structure, Halliburton enthused, "it flies!" Alexander befriended Ayn Rand and provided quotes for her book “The Fountainhead” (1943). Rand's descriptions of the Heller House, and other houses designed by the book's hero Howard Roark, were believed, by Alexander, to be thinly disguised references to Hangover House. Halliburton was lost at sea in 1939. In 1942, the house was purchased for $9,000 by Gen. Wallace Thompson Scott. The house was sold in 2011 for $3.2 million, about a year after the death of the longtime owner, Zolite Scott, Wallace's daughter. As of April 2012, construction was underway to rehabilitate the building after much neglect had resulted in severe structural deterioration; although work was held up by preservationist disputes.
Life
Who: Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – March 24, 1939), Paul Mooney (November 4, 1904 – March 24, 1939) and William Alexander Levy (October 21, 1909 - June 2, 1997)
Richard Halliburton was an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—36 cents—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career. His final and fatal adventure, an attempt to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, made him legendary. Halliburton's friends during this time included movie stars, writers, musicians, painters, and politicians, including writers Gertrude Atherton and Kathleen Norris, Senator James Phelan and philanthropist Noel Sullivan, and actors Ramón Novarro and Rod LaRoque. Halliburton never married. While young he dated several young women and, as revealed in letters to them, was infatuated with at least two. Later in his life, rumors of an impending marriage to Mary Lou Davis, who, with her two children from a previous marriage, resided at Hangover House during the Sea Dragon Expedition, were of little foundation. Halliburton was most likely bisexual. Among those romantically linked to him were film star Ramón Novarro and philanthropist Noel Sullivan, both of whom shared the bohemian lifestyle. Halliburton's most enduring relationship was with freelance journalist Paul Mooney, with whom he often shared living quarters and who assisted him with his written work. French police reports, dated 1935, noted the famed traveler's homosexual activity when in Paris - this about the time of his planned crossing by elephant over the Alps: "Mr Halliburton is a well known homosexual in some specialized establishments. One of his cruising locales was the Saint-Lazare Street." After the deaths of Halliburton and Mooney, William Alexander Levy assisted composer Arnold Schoenberg in the redesign of his studio in Brentwood, and also designed a house in Encino for scriptwriter David Greggory. The house in the Hollywood Hills he built for himself he called the House in Space, distinct as an early example in the region of cantilever construction. Alexander also designed wooden furniture and bowls. Alexander continued to practice architecture and interior design and by 1950 had moved permanently to West Hollywood. In 1952, Alexander opened The Mart, one of the first art and antique boutiques in Los Angeles, on Santa Monica Boulevard, operating it until 1977. During this period, he occasionally had bit parts in feature films, notably “The Shootist,” starring John Wayne, and “The McMasters,” starring Brock Peters, his sometime business partner at The Mart. A developer of the Hollywood Hills and a philanthropist, Alexander became a patron of the arts and a world traveler. Alexander's papers are kept at the Architecture and Design Collection, at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Born: January 9, 1900, Brownsville, Tennessee, United States
Died: March 24, 1939, Pacific Ocean
Movies: India Speaks
Parents: Wesley Halliburton, Nelle Nance Halliburton
Siblings: Wesley Halliburton Jr.
Education: Lawrenceville School
Memphis University School
Princeton University
Lived: Hangover House, Laguna Beach, 31172 Ceanothus Dr, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA (33.50984, -117.74785)
Buried: Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
Architecture historian and writer Ted Wells considers Hangover House, which Richard Halliburton commissioned, one of the "best modern houses in the United States."
Address: 31172 Ceanothus Dr, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, USA (33.50984, -117.74785)
Type: Private Property
Place
Hangover House (also known as the Halliburton House) was designed and built by William Alexander Levy for his friend the travel writer Richard Halliburton. Constructed in 1938 on a Laguna Beach, California, hilltop, the house, boasting commanding views of the Pacific Ocean, was built with three bedrooms, one each for Halliburton, Alexander, and Halliburton's lover Paul Mooney, who was also Halliburton's editor and ghostwriter. Alexander drew upon European modern architecture and created flat-roofed boxes of concrete and glass. He hoped to create a house that, like the international modern spirit of Halliburton, soared above the clouds. Mies van der Rohe's work and his experimental concrete buildings of the 1920s, along with Le Corbusier's L'Esprit Nouveau Pavilion (1924–25) and his famous Villa Savoye (1928–29), influenced Alexander. Concrete and steel were the main materials used in its construction. Glass blocks formed part of the wall along the gallery that looked into a canyon several hundred feet below. A huge bastionlike retaining wall outside the main building made the house appear safe from intrusion and Olympian in its detachment. Alexander was a novice architect, a recent graduate of the New York University School of Architecture and close friend of Paul Mooney. Mooney managed the construction of the house, and offered occasional design advice, suggesting the creation of a small pond behind the house which, for its shape and size, he called "Clark Gable's ears." A mutual friend of Levy and Mooney, Charles Wolfsohn (born 1912), a penthouse garden designer, did the flower landscaping. The house, built of concrete and steel and bastion-like in appearance, contained a spacious living room, a spacious dining room and three bedrooms. Because of its position, perched 400 feet (120m) above a sheer canyon, it was called "Hangover House" by Mooney, and this title was cast into a retaining wall on the site. The nickname "Hangover House" is a pun on both the building's location overlooking the cliffs, and the alcohol consumed there. When he first saw the completed structure, Halliburton enthused, "it flies!" Alexander befriended Ayn Rand and provided quotes for her book “The Fountainhead” (1943). Rand's descriptions of the Heller House, and other houses designed by the book's hero Howard Roark, were believed, by Alexander, to be thinly disguised references to Hangover House. Halliburton was lost at sea in 1939. In 1942, the house was purchased for $9,000 by Gen. Wallace Thompson Scott. The house was sold in 2011 for $3.2 million, about a year after the death of the longtime owner, Zolite Scott, Wallace's daughter. As of April 2012, construction was underway to rehabilitate the building after much neglect had resulted in severe structural deterioration; although work was held up by preservationist disputes.
Life
Who: Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – March 24, 1939), Paul Mooney (November 4, 1904 – March 24, 1939) and William Alexander Levy (October 21, 1909 - June 2, 1997)
Richard Halliburton was an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—36 cents—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career. His final and fatal adventure, an attempt to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, made him legendary. Halliburton's friends during this time included movie stars, writers, musicians, painters, and politicians, including writers Gertrude Atherton and Kathleen Norris, Senator James Phelan and philanthropist Noel Sullivan, and actors Ramón Novarro and Rod LaRoque. Halliburton never married. While young he dated several young women and, as revealed in letters to them, was infatuated with at least two. Later in his life, rumors of an impending marriage to Mary Lou Davis, who, with her two children from a previous marriage, resided at Hangover House during the Sea Dragon Expedition, were of little foundation. Halliburton was most likely bisexual. Among those romantically linked to him were film star Ramón Novarro and philanthropist Noel Sullivan, both of whom shared the bohemian lifestyle. Halliburton's most enduring relationship was with freelance journalist Paul Mooney, with whom he often shared living quarters and who assisted him with his written work. French police reports, dated 1935, noted the famed traveler's homosexual activity when in Paris - this about the time of his planned crossing by elephant over the Alps: "Mr Halliburton is a well known homosexual in some specialized establishments. One of his cruising locales was the Saint-Lazare Street." After the deaths of Halliburton and Mooney, William Alexander Levy assisted composer Arnold Schoenberg in the redesign of his studio in Brentwood, and also designed a house in Encino for scriptwriter David Greggory. The house in the Hollywood Hills he built for himself he called the House in Space, distinct as an early example in the region of cantilever construction. Alexander also designed wooden furniture and bowls. Alexander continued to practice architecture and interior design and by 1950 had moved permanently to West Hollywood. In 1952, Alexander opened The Mart, one of the first art and antique boutiques in Los Angeles, on Santa Monica Boulevard, operating it until 1977. During this period, he occasionally had bit parts in feature films, notably “The Shootist,” starring John Wayne, and “The McMasters,” starring Brock Peters, his sometime business partner at The Mart. A developer of the Hollywood Hills and a philanthropist, Alexander became a patron of the arts and a world traveler. Alexander's papers are kept at the Architecture and Design Collection, at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Raymond Mortimer (April 25, 1895 – January 9, 1980)
Charles Raymond Bell Mortimer, who wrote under the name Raymond Mortimer, was a British writer on art and literature, known mostly as a critic and literary editor. He was born in Knightsbridge, London, and brought up in Redhill, Surrey.
Born: April 25, 1895, Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom
Died: January 9, 1980, Canonbury, London, United Kingdom
Education: Balliol College
Malvern College
Books: Try Anything Once, Channel packet, more
Lived: Long Critchel House, Long Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 5LF, UK (50.8913, -2.03398)
Long Critchel House was bought in 1945 by Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville, music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor and art critic Eardley Knollys.
Address: Long Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 5LF, UK (50.8913, -2.03398)
Type: Private Property
English Heritage Building ID: 107390 (Grade II, 1955)
Place
Long Crichel is a small village and civil parish in east Dorset, situated on Cranborne Chase five miles north east of Blandford Forum. In 2001 it had a population of 81. The village church is St Mary’s Church, Long Crichel. The tower of the church dates from the XV century, and the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1851. It was declared redundant on 1 July, 2003, and was vested in the Friends of Friendless Churches during 2010. At Long Critchel House Edward Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys established "what in effect was a male salon, entertaining at the weekends a galaxy of friends from the worlds of books and music,” including James Lees-Milne, a close friend of Knollys. By the mid-1960s Sackville, who died in 1965, and Knollys had been replaced by the literary critic Raymond Mortimer and Patrick Trevor-Roper.
Life
Who: Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (November 13, 1901 – July 4, 1965), Desmond Christopher Shawe-Taylor (May 29, 1907 – November 1, 1995) and (Edward) Eardley Knollys (1902-1991)
Edward Charles Sackville-West was a British music critic, novelist and, in his last years, a member of the House of Lords. Musically gifted as a boy, he was attracted as a young man to a literary life and wrote a series of semi-autobiographical novels in the 1920s and ‘30s. They made little impact, and his more lasting books are a biography of the poet Thomas de Quincey and “The Record Guide,” Britain’s first comprehensive guide to classical music on record, first published in 1951. As a critic and a member of the board of the Royal Opera House, he strove to promote the works of young British composers, including Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. Britten worked with him on a musical drama for radio and dedicated to him one of his best known works, the “Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.” His partner Desmond Shawe-Taylor said of him, "not many boys can have played at a school concert the Second Concerto of Rachmaninov.” Sackville-West’s family home was Knole in Kent. He maintained rooms there, but it was not until 1945 that he had a home of his own. Together with Shawe-Taylor he set up home at Long Crichel House near Wimborne. Shawe-Taylor and Eddy Sackville-West met in 1935, Shawe-Taylor staying a night in Sackville-West’s rooms at Knole, in Kent, before they both attended a performance of Berlioz’s opera “The Trojans,” at that time such a novelty in Britain that they thought it well worth a journey to Glasgow to hear it. A firm, if sometimes bumpy, but very creative, friendship formed that was to last until Sackville-West’s death in 1965. He was succeeded in the barony by his cousin Lionel Bertrand Sackville-West. Eardley Knollys was an artist of the Bloomsbury School of artists, art critic, art dealer and collector, active from the 1920s to 1950s. He only began to paint himself in 1949, and had his first solo exhibition at the age of 58 in 1960, by which time he was already a "minor legend in British art.” He was a director of The Storran Gallery at 106 Brompton Road, opposite Harrods. James Lees-Milne, a close friend of Knollys, recruited him to join him at the National Trust during WWII, and over the next 15 years accompanied him on many of the trips to country houses recorded in his published volumes of diaries. Several photos from the 1920s of Knollys and friends by Lady Ottoline Morrell are in the National Portrait Gallery. Raymond Mortimer was a British writer on art and literature, known mostly as a critic and literary editor. He was a friend of the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, and was involved in a long-term relationship with her husband, author and British diplomat Harold Nicolson. Raymond Mortimer joined the three original owners of Long Crichel House, Wimborne, friends Edward Sackville West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys, as one of the residents, after WW2. Patrick Trevor-Roper, British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist, was one of the first people in the United Kingdom to "come out" as openly gay, and played a leading role in the campaign to repeal the UK’s anti-gay laws. In 1955 Trevor-Roper agreed to appear as a witness before the Wolfenden Committee, which had been appointed by the British government to investigate (among other things) whether male homosexuality should remain a crime. He was one of only three men who could be found to appear as openly gay witnesses before the Committee. The others were the journalist Peter Wildeblood (who had been convicted for homosexual offence) and Carl Winter, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
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Born: April 25, 1895, Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom
Died: January 9, 1980, Canonbury, London, United Kingdom
Education: Balliol College
Malvern College
Books: Try Anything Once, Channel packet, more
Lived: Long Critchel House, Long Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 5LF, UK (50.8913, -2.03398)
Long Critchel House was bought in 1945 by Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville, music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor and art critic Eardley Knollys.
Address: Long Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 5LF, UK (50.8913, -2.03398)
Type: Private Property
English Heritage Building ID: 107390 (Grade II, 1955)
Place
Long Crichel is a small village and civil parish in east Dorset, situated on Cranborne Chase five miles north east of Blandford Forum. In 2001 it had a population of 81. The village church is St Mary’s Church, Long Crichel. The tower of the church dates from the XV century, and the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1851. It was declared redundant on 1 July, 2003, and was vested in the Friends of Friendless Churches during 2010. At Long Critchel House Edward Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys established "what in effect was a male salon, entertaining at the weekends a galaxy of friends from the worlds of books and music,” including James Lees-Milne, a close friend of Knollys. By the mid-1960s Sackville, who died in 1965, and Knollys had been replaced by the literary critic Raymond Mortimer and Patrick Trevor-Roper.
Life
Who: Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (November 13, 1901 – July 4, 1965), Desmond Christopher Shawe-Taylor (May 29, 1907 – November 1, 1995) and (Edward) Eardley Knollys (1902-1991)
Edward Charles Sackville-West was a British music critic, novelist and, in his last years, a member of the House of Lords. Musically gifted as a boy, he was attracted as a young man to a literary life and wrote a series of semi-autobiographical novels in the 1920s and ‘30s. They made little impact, and his more lasting books are a biography of the poet Thomas de Quincey and “The Record Guide,” Britain’s first comprehensive guide to classical music on record, first published in 1951. As a critic and a member of the board of the Royal Opera House, he strove to promote the works of young British composers, including Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. Britten worked with him on a musical drama for radio and dedicated to him one of his best known works, the “Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.” His partner Desmond Shawe-Taylor said of him, "not many boys can have played at a school concert the Second Concerto of Rachmaninov.” Sackville-West’s family home was Knole in Kent. He maintained rooms there, but it was not until 1945 that he had a home of his own. Together with Shawe-Taylor he set up home at Long Crichel House near Wimborne. Shawe-Taylor and Eddy Sackville-West met in 1935, Shawe-Taylor staying a night in Sackville-West’s rooms at Knole, in Kent, before they both attended a performance of Berlioz’s opera “The Trojans,” at that time such a novelty in Britain that they thought it well worth a journey to Glasgow to hear it. A firm, if sometimes bumpy, but very creative, friendship formed that was to last until Sackville-West’s death in 1965. He was succeeded in the barony by his cousin Lionel Bertrand Sackville-West. Eardley Knollys was an artist of the Bloomsbury School of artists, art critic, art dealer and collector, active from the 1920s to 1950s. He only began to paint himself in 1949, and had his first solo exhibition at the age of 58 in 1960, by which time he was already a "minor legend in British art.” He was a director of The Storran Gallery at 106 Brompton Road, opposite Harrods. James Lees-Milne, a close friend of Knollys, recruited him to join him at the National Trust during WWII, and over the next 15 years accompanied him on many of the trips to country houses recorded in his published volumes of diaries. Several photos from the 1920s of Knollys and friends by Lady Ottoline Morrell are in the National Portrait Gallery. Raymond Mortimer was a British writer on art and literature, known mostly as a critic and literary editor. He was a friend of the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, and was involved in a long-term relationship with her husband, author and British diplomat Harold Nicolson. Raymond Mortimer joined the three original owners of Long Crichel House, Wimborne, friends Edward Sackville West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys, as one of the residents, after WW2. Patrick Trevor-Roper, British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist, was one of the first people in the United Kingdom to "come out" as openly gay, and played a leading role in the campaign to repeal the UK’s anti-gay laws. In 1955 Trevor-Roper agreed to appear as a witness before the Wolfenden Committee, which had been appointed by the British government to investigate (among other things) whether male homosexuality should remain a crime. He was one of only three men who could be found to appear as openly gay witnesses before the Committee. The others were the journalist Peter Wildeblood (who had been convicted for homosexual offence) and Carl Winter, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Queer Places, Vol. 2 edited by Elisa Rolle
ISBN-13: 978-1532906312
ISBN-10: 1532906315
Release Date: July 24, 2016
CreateSpace Store: https://www.createspace.com/6228833
Amazon (print): http://www.amazon.com/dp/1532906315/?...
Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IZ1KZBO/?...
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