Duff Twysden
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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] On 4 January 1914 her engagement to John Churchill Craigie, son of Pearl Richards Craigie, was announced,[4] but her first marriage was to , son of Edward Byrom DL of Culver, Devon and Kersal Cell, Lancashire, who served as High Sheriff of Devon in 1888, by his wife Florence Maria, daughter and co-heiress of Marmaduke Jerard Grimston, of Grimston Garth and Kilnwick.[5] Luttrell Byrom petitioned for divorce in 1915 citing one G. Henderson as a co-respondent.[6] Her second marriage was at Edinburgh on 26 January 1917, to , a naval officer.[7] He had succeeded as tenth Baronet on 1 May 1911,[8] so Duff became known as Lady Twysden. Their son Anthony, later eleventh Baronet, was born on 11 March 1918.[1]
Sir Roger and Lady Twysden were divorced in 1926.[1] Duff Twysden eventually married artist Clinton King.[9] She died in Santa Fe, New Mexico of tuberculosis when she was forty-seven.[10]
Twysden was famous for adopting a boyish, androgynous fashion style, with a bobbed haircut and workingmen's clothes, before this was fashionable. She was also sexually adventurous without apology at a time when this was scandalous.
In the 1988 miniseries Hemingway, starring Stacy Keach, Duff Twysden was played by Fiona Fullerton.[11]
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- ^ M. C. Rintoul, Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction, Routledge, p909 (online at google books)
- ^ Descendants of Walter Stirling, 1567–1656 Archived 11 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "John Craigie to Wed Miss Sterling" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Mortimer-Percy Volume, page 193 (online at google books)
- ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ "Powys-Lybbe Forbears". Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page". Leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 16 October 2017.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Clinton Blair King – Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Clinton Blair King". Askart.com. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
- ^ "Brett Ashley – 1991, Page 62".[dead link]
- ^ Hemingway at IMDb
Clinton Blair King marriage st giles,London 1928 to Smurthwaite/Twysden
- 1893 births
- 1938 deaths
- British socialites
- Ernest Hemingway
- Wives of baronets