Article: Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson.(Brief Article)

Julie Speedie's biography meticulously chronicles the glittering social and artistic life of London's Mayfair in the 1890s. Many of its brightest stars attended Ada's salon (Max Beerbohm, Walter Sickert and Aubrey Beardsley among them). She numbered countless others amongst her friends, notably Oscar Wilde, both before and after his fall from grace, and the fickle, boastful George Moore. She shone as a contributor to Punch; and from 1907 onwards she became a successful writer of popular ...

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