December 8, 2025
Tag: Oscar Wilde
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
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July 30, 2024 1 Comment
Henry Shaw was an industrious young man in business and in life. He retired young, traveled throughout Europe, and returned to his home in St. Louis to build a garden like the ones he saw in England. Then he gave it away. People still make their way to Missouri to see Henry’s flowers.