Thursday, July 14, 2011

Clare Consuelo Sheridan was a renowned sculptress, novelist, newspaper correspondent, career women and traveler, always leading an adventurous and tempestuous life.

She was born in London on September 9, 1885 as daughter of Moreton Frewen, and his wife Clara Jerome, one of the three daughters of  American millionaire, Leonard Jerome and his wife, Clarissa Hall.
Sheridan was not only a talented sculptress but in 1922 became European correspondent of the American newspaper New York World. Furthermore she became a tireless traveler, often her journeys were accomplished by motorcycle and sidecar and an author of many books about these travels and about her adventurous and eventful life.

She also interviewed statesmen and dictators like for example Mussolini, Mustafa Kemal, Primo de Rivera, Stamboulski, and Obregón.  An adventurous spirit, she lived with Indian tribes in Canada and in the U.S. for several months, she camped with Charlie Chaplin in California, she travelled Turkey, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany.
          Her full story at The Esoteric Curiosa

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