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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 29th
No particular birthday today so let’s celebrate Louisa Lumsden CBE (1840-1935), the first prominent female figure at the University of St Andrews. Louisa was one of the original students of Girton College Cambridge. She taught classics there and later at Cheltenham. In 1877 she became Head of St Leonard’s school in St Andrews. In 1895…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 25th
A glass of port for today’s birthday girl: Elizabeth Vassell Fox, Lady Holland 25th March 1771-1845 Elizabeth had an affair with Henry Fox and gave birth to his child while she was married to her first husband Godfrey Webster. She married Fox immediately following her divorce from Webster and became hostess to many Whig party…
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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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