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...Drapers moved to London, where Victorianism was deeply buried under the lush Edwardian bloom. Muriel set about creating a salon to rival Mabel Dodge's villa in Florence. To the Draper home at 19A Edith Grove came such notables as Painter John Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn...
Lineage: Born June 28, 1920, third child, only daughter of Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill, Winston's younger brother. Father won a D.S.O. in the Boer War, died in 1947; mother, an Edwardian beauty, died in 1941. "True blue-blood," descended on her father's side from John Churchill, first Duke to Marlborough (1650-1722); on her mother's from the Earls of Abingdon (the present eighth earl is Clarissa's cousin...
...first table, just inside the door of Sherry's red, Edwardian grand tier bar at the Metropolitan Opera, a distinguished gentleman with a halo of white hair holds court during intermission several nights a week. Old Metgoers and off-duty singers pay him the homage of a word or a bow as they pass. Some of the youngsters recognize him and point him out to less knowing companions; even people who don't know him give him more than a passing glance, sensing that he is "somebody." He is indeed: he is Giovanni Martinelli, one of the great...
...pleasant Edwardian day, that paragon of propriety, Henry James, went down to Sussex to pay a call on G. K. Chesterton. "It was a very stately call," wrote Chesterton, with James all buttoned-up in a frock coat. Suddenly, a terrible bellowing broke out and two unshaven hoboes in workers' "reach-me-downs" burst in. They had walked all the way from Dover after spending their last penny in France, but they had enough strength left to quarrel furiously-"accusing each other of having secretly washed, in violation of an implied contract between tramps." Henry James is said...
...Edwardian Debate. The Belloc with whom posterity will reckon does not belong to this era at all. He belongs to those Edwardian days when the wiseacres said of him-as they said of Churchill-that his very brilliance would be his undoing. For Belloc could write like an angel, sail a yacht like an old salt, take to the hustings like a born politician (he was a-Liberal M.P. for South Salford from 1906 to 1910). He turned out books at the rate of two or three a year-poems, novels, histories and essays of such diversity that, as early...