Desperado: The Untamed Life of Clare Sheridan
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Clare Sheridan
empowerment
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travel diaries
Winston Churchill
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- ISBN 9781917458689
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Clare Frewen was born in 1885 into what seemed the lap of luxury, raised by a glamorous socialite and a descendant of English and Irish gentry.
After a marriage to Wilfrid, a descendant of the famed playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan ended in tragedy, she embraced her independence – travelling to Russia in the wake of the revolution, becoming the first woman hired by the New York World, and honing her craft as a sculptor – with a sensational catalogue of subjects – including cousin Winston Churchill, H.G. Wells, Gladys Cooper, Mahatma Gandhi, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Herbert Henry Asquith, Charlie Chaplin, Benito Mussolini and composer Dimitri Shostakovich. Captivated by her fearlessness and talent, Clare attracted a remarkable coterie of lovers throughout her lifetime – from Russian revolutionaries to American millionaires, to Arab Shieks.
Clare also became an acclaimed travel writer, memoirist, diarist, and novelist. As well creating over 100 works of art, she wrote 20 books, in addition to dozens of newspaper and magazine articles for The Times, the Daily Mail, The New York Herald, Boston Globe and others.
Elisabeth Kehoe is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and author of the acclaimed biographies of the famous Jerome sisters (including Jennie Churchill, Winston’s American mother), Kitty O’Shea - wrongly blamed for destroying Ireland’s chances of independence in 1890 - and other works on talented and overlooked women of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
