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Chantry House, Steyning
The Chantry House is a house at 34 Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex, England It is a Grade II* listed building, built in the 18th century. There is a tablet on the building, upon which is inscribed " William Butler Yeats, 1859–1939, wrote many of his later poems in this house". The artist Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) lived there with her longtime lover, Edith Shackleton Heald Edith Shackleton Heald (12 September 1885 – 4 November 1976) was a British journalist who was the last mistress of the poet W. B. Yeats from 1937 until his death in 1939, and lived with the lesbian and gender non-conforming artist Gluck from ..., who died in 1976 followed by Gluck in 1978. As of 2007, the house is lived in by Gluck's former doctor. References Grade II* listed buildings in West Sussex {{UK-listed-building-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantry House, Steyning
The Chantry House is a house at 34 Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex, England It is a Grade II* listed building, built in the 18th century. There is a tablet on the building, upon which is inscribed " William Butler Yeats, 1859–1939, wrote many of his later poems in this house". The artist Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) lived there with her longtime lover, Edith Shackleton Heald Edith Shackleton Heald (12 September 1885 – 4 November 1976) was a British journalist who was the last mistress of the poet W. B. Yeats from 1937 until his death in 1939, and lived with the lesbian and gender non-conforming artist Gluck from ..., who died in 1976 followed by Gluck in 1978. As of 2007, the house is lived in by Gluck's former doctor. References Grade II* listed buildings in West Sussex {{UK-listed-building-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steyning
Steyning ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Horsham District, Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles (6.4 km) north of the coastal town of Shoreham-by-Sea. The smaller villages of Bramber and Upper Beeding constitute, with Steyning, a built-up area at this crossing-point of the river. Demography The parish has a land area of . In the 2001 census 5,812 people lived in 2,530 households, of whom 2,747 were economically active. History Saxon Steyning has existed since Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon times. Legend has it that Cuthman of Steyning, St Cuthman built a church, at one time dedicated to him, later to St Andrew, and now jointly to St Andrew and St Cuthman, where he stopped after carrying his mother in a wheelbarrow. Several of the signs that can be seen on entering Steyning bear an image of his feat. King Alfred the Great's father, Æthelwulf of Wessex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland. The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000. The statutory term in Ireland is " protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without special permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency, particularly for significant alterations to the more notable listed buildings. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to a listed building which involves any element of demolition. Exemption from secular listed building control is provided for some buildings in current use for worship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount and was educated in Dublin and London and spent childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gluck (painter)
Gluck (born Hannah Gluckstein; 13 August 1895 – 10 January 1978) was a British painter, who rejected any forename or prefix (such as ‘Miss’ or ‘Mr.’), as Gluck was gender-nonconforming, also using the names Peter and Hig. Gluck joined the Lamorna artists’ colony near Penzance, and was noted for portraits and floral paintings, as well as a new design of picture-frame. Gluck's relationships with a number of women included one with Nesta Obermer: the artist's joint self-portrait with Obermer (''Medallion'') is viewed as an iconic lesbian statement. Biography Family and early life Gluck was born into a wealthy Jewish family in London, England. Gluck's father was Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Gluck's American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer. Gluck's younger brother, Sir Louis Gluckstein, was a Conservative politician. Gluck was a pupil at the Dame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Shackleton Heald
Edith Shackleton Heald (12 September 1885 – 4 November 1976) was a British journalist who was the last mistress of the poet W. B. Yeats from 1937 until his death in 1939, and lived with the lesbian and gender non-conforming artist Gluck from 1944 until her death in 1976. Yeats called her "the best paid woman journalist of her time", and Arnold Bennett called her the "most brilliant reviewer" in London. Early life Heald was born 12 September 1885 in Manchester, the younger daughter of John Thomas Heald and Mary Shackleton. They were both from Stacksteads, Lancashire; he was originally a schoolmaster. Heald had an older sister, Nora Shackleton Heald, with whom she co-owned the Chantry House. Nora went on to be editor of '' The Queen'' and '' The Lady''. Her brother Ivan Shackleton Heald (1883–1916) was "Fleet Street's most acclaimed humorous writer" until he joined the Royal Flying Corps and died in the First World War. Career Heald was a "pioneering reporter" and a spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
