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1st Edition. Description: Brown cloth. Black and white frontis of author plus 12 other photographs. Language: English. Book Condition> Good: Light wear and rubbing to corners, edges and spine ends. Bumped upper front corner. Light wear to spine edges. Rubbed cloth. Aged toned intact endpapers and strong hinges. Faint outline of previous plate to front paste down and false title page. Light spotting to prelims. Tanned pages with occasional spots or marks to margins. DJ Condition> No DJ. 347pp. Size: 12mo (large) 22cm by 14cm. Author: Clare Consuelo Sheridan (n e Frewen; 1885 - 1970), English sculptor, journalist and writer Cousin of Sir Winston Churchill Her circle of friends were Princess Margaret of Sweden, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh Born in London, to Moreton Frewen, the Anglo-Irish owner of Brede Place in East Sussex, and his American wife, the former Clarita "Clara" Jerome Her godmother and namesake was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough Married William, Frederick Sheridan in 1910 at St Margarets, Westminster They had two daughters Elizabeth, died in February 1914, Clare Sheridan made a sculpture of a small weeping angel for the childs grave thus discovering an ability for sculpting Moved from France to London to study under John Tweed and Professor douard Lant riIn the summer of 1920, the first Soviet Russian trade delegation to visit London invited Sheridan to travel to Russia to make busts of notable revolutionaries She stayed in the Kremlin for two months, sculpting subjects that included Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Felix Dzerzhinsky and Kamenev Sheridan is reputed to have had affairs with more than one of her sitters During her stay, the Russian Civil War was being fought Winston Churchill, as Secretary of State for War, was furious to learn of Sheridans activities and refused to see her Finding herself shunned in polite society, she moved to America Sheridan had a love affair with Charlie Chaplin She was also introduced to Herbert Swope who offered her a job as the papers roving European correspondent obtaining a number of notable scoops for the paper During the Irish Civil War she managed to interview both Michael Collins and Rory OConnor She filed vivid accounts from the occupied city of Smyrna during the Greco-Turkish War Sheridan interviewed Aleksandar Stamboliyski in Bulgaria, Benito Mussolini in Rome and Mustafa Kemal Atat rk She died in 1970 at the age of 84 and is buried in the churchyard of St Georges, Brede, Sussex beside her nephew Roger Frewen and her great-niece Selina Frewen and near the memorial she had carved to her son. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required. N° de ref. del artículo 7596
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