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...some "dear friendships" with other women. These friendships never progressed beyond kisses and preliminary love play, because H. E. was sexually impotent. After a quarter-century of tormented marriage, his wife died, and past the age of 60, H. E. became potent for the first time with a French mistress young enough to be his daughter...
...reason was that the earl himself had admitted in court to having kept a mistress ($2,300 a year plus a $17,000 house), whom he wanted to marry after his divorce. British law stipulates that a marriage may be dissolved only when one party is egregiously at fault. "If ever the inadequacy, feebleness and immorality of our present laws on marriage and divorce have been exposed," said the Yorkshire Post, "it has been in this pitiful and protracted case." Added the Evening Standard: "In legal mathematics two minuses add up to a plus, and double adultery can come...
...Earl of Shrewsbury, dining afterward with his well-gowned mistress Aileen Mortlock, declared: "I am definitely not going back to my wife, but I'm afraid she will never divorce me." The countess, dining at a big table with a place set for the earl's return (as it has been ever since he walked out of Ingestre Hall last September), said: "As a Christian, I believe I am pledged to him for life...
...Mistress. A fine Japanese film, made in 1953 by Director Shiro Toyoda, that seems almost an Oriental version of A Doll's House (TIME...
Nursing a bruised ego and a gift for sketching, the 21-year-old Whistler embarked for Paris and the studio of French Painter Gustave Courbet. From Courbet he acquired his early brush strokes, his first model-mistress, Eloise, and a point of view: "Beauty is truth." This creed spurred the art-for-art's-sake movement with which an entire generation of painters and writers thwacked at the Victorian taste for the didactic, the sentimental and the morally elevating. From London (where he moved in 1859), Whistler deployed his canvases like troops in this avant-garde campaign. The fury...