Better described in these cuttings than in my prose, this was one of my great-great aunts. I’ve no idea whether she is the woman on the horse - though horses and dogs were twin obsessions. That said, she is superbly well-dressed in the photo below (she’s the girl on the right), even if she and her younger sisters bear a passing resemblance to meerkats.
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Is the meerkat resemblance a family trait then?
And have you read any of her books?
What a lovely choice.
Puss
What a handsome woman. I adore what she’s wearing as a child. Those shoes!
Were the children on holiday in Heidelberg when they had their picture taken?
August
Puss - I’m glad to say the trait of Meerkattishness has vanished. I did read one of her novels - Fray Mario - when I was a teenager, but it made no great impression on me other than I thought her prose was good. I also read a book she wrote on Scottish palaces, which was handy for an essay I was writing at the time.
August - they are nice shoes, aren’t they? Long vanished, alas. I think Helen’s family were in the habit of letting their house in Scotland during winter and living in Switzerland and southern Germany. I suspect it was cheaper. Helen’s brother, my great-grandfather, was born in Montreaux in the 1880s. I have a photo of Helen’s father from the studio of Mayer & Pierson, which also suggests that he spent time in Paris.
i was just going to ask how you find these amazing, talented and elegantly dressed people - and it turns out she’s one of yours!
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