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(LESLIE) Anita Leslie ~ Cousin Clare, The Tempestuous Career Of Clare Sheridan: First Edition

Author ~ Anita Leslie

Title ~ Cousin Clare, The Tempestuous Career Of Clare Sheridan

Edition ~ First Edition

ISBN ~  9780091279400

Publisher ~ Hutchinson

Published ~ 1976

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 272

Format ~ Hardcover 

Condition ~ Near New

Slight wear to the dust jacket. Brightly coloured, not price clipped and no inscriptions. Internally, pages clean and tightly bound

Categories ~ #Adversity #Art #Biography #Memoir #Family #FirstEdition #Literature #NonFiction #Travel #AnitaLeslie #9780091279400

Clare Consuela Sheridan ( 1885 -!970) has had the most varied, exotic and colourful life of these Notable Galway Women.  She came from a well-connected cosmopolitan family.  She was a sculptor, a writer, a restless nomad who wrote about her adventures, had relationships with intriguing men and she endured tragedy – with the death of her adored husband and two of her three children died before her. She had fascinating friends which reflected her cosmopolitan background of Anglo-Irish American parentage. Her godmother was Consuela Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

Through her bust sculptures and journalistic assignments she was intimate with a variety of people including Irish Nationalists like Michael Collins, British politicians and aristocrats, the Mountbattens, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh,  Charlie  Chaplin and the Russian revolutionaries. Through her cousin Winston Churchill she made useful connections as sculpture and writer and her biography Cousin Clare  was written by the fascinating Galway based biographer Anita Leslie of Oranmore Castle who was also a cousin and is probably  most definitive book on this remarkable life and she was a regular visitor there especially during her Galway years in the late forties.