![]() ![]() Perhaps it takes a great-grand- daughter's fond glance back to animate such a strange woman. It would be only too easy to caricature her as an upper class slapper, chilly, almost horrible. She was, says her biographer, the model for Michael Arlen's The Green Hat and Nancy Mitford's character, The Bolter. She had dyed hair and no chin, looking like a pretty chicken, yet Lady Idina Sackville was a certified sex bomb.īorn in 1893, she married five times, had endless lovers, was divorced scandalously and abandoned her three children with barely a backwards glance. She was described by a contemporary as having a heavily made-up face covered with blue-white powder, chic, empty, dissipated, hungry-looking, spoilt and vicious. ![]() And sexual allure seems even more problematic.Įspecially when the photographic evidence seems to reveal a chinless wonder. Like spontaneous wit, it tends to need the full sensurround of being there. ![]()
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