Ginger Wail

Worth a Sunday afternoon walk through the archives to original posts on MaudNewton.com and BrooksPeters.com. 

maudnewton:

Here’s Theodora Keogh, badass novelist and dancer, with the pet wildcat — a margay — that chewed off part of her ear one night at the Chelsea Hotel.

Joan Schenkar points out in The Talented Miss Highsmith, where this photo appears, that Keogh is one of few women whose writing Patricia Highsmith approved of. She was also Teddy Roosevelt’s granddaughter. And she was depicted in the very first issue of The Paris Review.

Despite the contemporary tone and preoccupations of her novels, she’s now all but forgotten. I’m pulling for a revival.