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Mary Duff Stirling Smurthwaite, Lady Twysden (22 May 1891 – 27 June 1938) [1] was a British socialite best known for being the model for Brett Ashley in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises. [2] She was the eldest child of Baynes Wright Smurthwaite by his wife Charlotte Lilias Stirling. [3]
He had a brief affair with Duff, Lady Twysden. Hemingway later used them as inspiration for the characters Robert Cohn and Lady Brett Ashley, respectively, in his roman à clef, The Sun Also Rises. In his 1959 memoir, Loeb later wrote about this period, and of being involved in boxing and bullfights with Hemingway.
There have been two baronetcies created, both in the Baronetage of England, for members of the Twysden (or Twisden) family of Kent.. The Baronetcy of Twysden of Roydon Hall, Kent, was created on 29 June 1611 for William Twysden of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent, the son of Roger Twysden, High Sheriff of Kent in 1599, and grandson of William Twysden of Chelmington and Wye who married Elizabeth ...
A letter written by Titanic survivor Lucy Lady Duff-Gordon is slated to hit the auction block in Boston.
Hemingway (left), with Harold Loeb, Duff Twysden (in hat), Hadley Richardson, Donald Ogden Stewart (obscured), and Pat Guthrie (far right) at a café in Pamplona, Spain, July 1925. With his wife Hadley Richardson, Hemingway first visited the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona in 1923, where he was following his recent passion for bullfighting. [7]
From left to right: Ernest Hemingway, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Patrick Stirling Guthrie, at a café in Pamplona, Spain, July 1925. A few days after the fiesta ended, on his birthday (July 21), he began to write the draft of what would become The Sun Also Rises, finishing eight weeks later. [52]
Ernest Hemingway (left), with Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden (in hat), Hadley Richardson Hemingway, Donald Ogden Stewart (obscured), and Pat Guthrie (far right) in Pamplona, Spain, July 1925. Through Anderson's letters of introduction, Hemingway met Ezra Pound, who invited the couple for tea, and they were invited to Gertrude Stein's salon ...
Since Duff's character Grace was killed off at the end of the second episode of season 2, her four sisters Eva (Sharon Horgan), Bibi (Sarah Greene), Ursula (Eva Birthistle) and Becka have slowly ...