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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 31st
The final birthday post for March, and again no specific birthday so here is a late one: Margaret Webster March 15, 1905 – November 13, 1972 American born actor who became well known on stage in the UK before returning to the US as a highly successful Broadway stage director, noted for record breaking long…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 30th
Birthdays seem to be scarce in this neck of the calendar, so here’s a bit of not quite history for you. Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Where thou diest there will I die,…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 27th
Today’s birthday cake is baked for Maria Schneider 27 March 1952 – 3 February 2011 Maria was an actor, best known for Last Tango in Paris. She was bisexual, and once committed herself to a psychiatric institution to be with her lover, photographer Joan Townsend, “They locked her up, and so I had to do…
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The Actual Historic Wedding-Tea Party March 29th 2014
A slight side-step here. It is now legal for same-sex couples to get married… but no one I know got married today, because, like us, all our friends are in civil partnerships (or they are not planning to get hitched in any shape or form). So I was feeling a bit grumpy about the government’s…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 25th
Today’s birthday girl is Olive Schreiner, 24th March 1855 – 1920 South African author and prolific letter writer. Olive was a feminist, socialist, pacifist, vegetarian, rational dress advocate, anti-vivisectionist would-be doctor and thinker, you name it she had a position on it. She corresponded with everyone, from Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis to Emily Hobhouse…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 22nd
And another date with no birthday, so let’s skip back a couple of months and one that got away: Eva La Gallienne 11 January 1899-3 June 1991 Eva was an actor and producer, born in England and who became part of the milieu of lesbian actors in Hollywood, performing herself on stage as Emily Dickinson,…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 21st
Another no-show so today let’s raise a glass for Eugenie (Evgenia) Souline, for whom I can find no dates. Eugenie was a Russian born nurse, who had a relationship with Radclyffe Hall, living in an uncomfortable three-way relationship with Una Troubridge for the last nine years of Radclyffe Hall’s life. On her deathbed, Hall revoked…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 20th
No birthday today so here’s someone I can’t find an accurate date for: Sarah Wilkinson aka Solita Solano 1888 – 22 November 1975 Theatre critic with the New York Tribune and as a freelance contributor to the National Geographic Society. In 1919 Solita started a relationship the journalist Janet Flanner. They travelled together to Greece…
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