Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time
ISBN-13: 978-1500563325 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1500563323
CreateSpace eStore:
https://www.createspace.com/4910282
Amazon print:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1500563323/?tag=elimyrevandra-20
Amazon kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MZG0VHY/?tag=elimyrevandra-20
Together from 1932 to 1978: 46 years
Evelyn Graham Irons (June 17, 1900 – April 3, 2000)
Joy McSweeney (1885 - 1978)
Joy McSweeney (1885-1978) was an English journalist and
longtime companion of
Evelyn Irons.
Joy McSweeney married and divorced two time before meeting
Evelyn Irons at a party in July 1931.[1]
Irons left
Vita Sackville-West to say with McSweeney.[2]
According to Sue Fox, Irons' biographer, "It was love at first sight. [...]
Right from the start, they were meant to be together. It was a relaxed,
natural relationship."[3]
In 1935, Irons won the
Royal Humane Society's
Stanhope Gold Medal "for the bravest deed of 1935". She "rescued a woman
[Joy McSweeney] from drowning under very courageous circumstances at
Tresaith Beach, Cardiganshire." It was the first time the medal had been
awarded to a woman.[4]
McSweeney and Irons bought Lodge Hill Cottage, a 16th-century Grade II
listed cottage in
Medmenham, Buckinghamshire. McSweeney found the cottage in 1935 and
pushed Irons to first lease and then buy it. When McSweeney and Irons moved
to
Brewster, New York, in 1952, they rented the cottage to several tenants,
including the American cookbook writer
Sylvia Vaughn Thompson.[3]
McSweeney and Irons had also a holiday home on
Skiathos,
Greece.
McSweeney died in 1978.[3]
Lewis, Paul (2000).
"Evelyn Irons, War Reporter, Is Dead at 99".
Retrieved 7 January 2018.
Souhami, Diana (2012).
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall. Hachette UK. p. 248.
Retrieved 7 January 2018.
"Inside story: a woman of no little
importance". The Telegraph. 2001.
"Outside the Gates" (PDF).
Stanhope Gold Medal. The British Journal of Nursing. August 1936. p. 222.
Retrieved 15 January 2012.
My published books:
BACK TO HOME PAGE