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Edith Varian Cockcroft

Edith Varian Cockcroft was a Brooklyn-born painter, designer, inventor and ceramist, who exhibited at venues including the Paris Salon, National Academy of Design and Art Institute of Chicago. She wasread more... known for portraits of nudes posed against vibrant fabric backdrops as well as landscape paintings, often depicting European seacoasts. She patented and exhibited silks and velvets, produced ceramic dinnerware and designed clothing and theater sets. Her artworks were lauded for “boldness of decorative pattern and fearless use of color” and for their “character and vigor.” Among the customers for her garments were the performers Irene Castle and Jeanette MacDonald Edith typically signed her paintings and ceramics “E. Varian Cockcroft” or “Cockcroft,” and it was reported in 1920 that her works “have such a strong masculine quality that she is generally thought to be a man.” She was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and she was a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists.read less...

Edith Cadivec

Edith Cadivec was an Austrian teacher, erotic novelist and notorious sex criminal of Slovenian descent.

Edith Carrington

Edith Carrington was a prominent English animal rights activist and promoter of vegetarianism. She was for sometime an artist, but began to write books on animals from 1889. She was a vocal opponent oread more...f Eleanor Anne Ormerod's campaign seeking the extermination of the house sparrow and was an anti-vivisectionist.read less...

Edith Carter

Edith Carter was an English stage actor and playwright, who was active in the 1920s-30s. She was the sister of the novelist John L. Carter, the aunt of the mystery and detective novel author Emery Bonread more...ett and the sister-in-law of author and playwright Winifred Carter.read less...

Edith Marian Begbie

Edith Marian Begbie was a militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who went on hunger strike in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham in 1912 and who was awarded thread more...e WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.read less...

Edith Marion Patch House

The Edith Marion Patch House is a historic house at 500 College Avenue in Old Town, Maine. Built about 1837, the house was from 1913 to 1954 it was the home of entomologist and writer Edith Marion Patread more...ch. She named the house Braeside for the Scottish bluebells that grew on the property. The house was rescued from demolition in 2000, and plans are in development to establish a research center and museum dedicated to Patch's life and work. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.read less...