On this day
01
May

Romaine Brooks, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Born: Romaine Brooks (1874)
Died: Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978)

Born on this day

01MayBorn 1874152nd birthday

Romaine Brooks

Her grey-toned portraits of women in top hats and tailored coats are icons of 1920s lesbian Paris – where she loved Natalie Barney for fifty years.

Died on this day

01MayDied 197848th anniversary of death

Sylvia Townsend Warner

The author of “Lolly Willowes” lived for almost forty years with the poet Valentine Ackland – and is buried with her.