A Curious Friendship by Anna Thomasson6/22/2023 ![]() Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - for whom she was 'all the muses'. ![]() Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Together, they embarked on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. For Rex Whistler, a nineteen-year-old art student, life was just beginning. ![]() ![]() The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her life had come to an end. ![]()
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