Nathan Frankau remained in the U.S., establishing himself successfully as an importer and retailer of fancy goods, first in New Haven CT and later in New York NY: "Every piece of merchandise in his shop was bought by him because he thought it was fine.
J. Frankau & Co., with its head office at 30 Gracechurch Street (London EC), was to remain a family business for three-quarters of a century.
They lived first at 103 Gloucester Terrace (London W), where their eldest son Gilbert Frankau was born in 1884,[14] before moving to 32a Weymouth Street[8] in the later 1880s.
"[2] In 1903, the death of Edwin Frankau and the success of Frank Danby's latest novel, Pigs in Clover, provided Arthur and Julia Frankau with the means to move house once more, to 11 Clarges Street (Mayfair), and to acquire a holiday home on the Sussex coast named Clover Cottage (now No.
'"[12] Arthur Frankau died at Clover Cottage, Eastbourne, on 21 November 1904 from galloping consumption apparently contracted on a business trip to Havana.
"[20][21] His widow Julia commissioned a substantial memorial from the celebrated sculptor and goldsmith Alfred Gilbert, at an agreed price of six hundred guineas; substantial amounts of money changed hands, but no monument was ever forthcoming from Alfred Gilbert, and 1906 saw Julia Frankau and her sister Eliza (the gossip columnist "Mrs Aria") whipping up a considerable media campaign against him.
[22] The Frankau family memorial eventually erected in Hampstead Cemetery is in every sense a monumental piece of Art-Deco, Grade II listed by English Heritage in 1999[23] and possibly the work of Julia and Eliza's brother-in-law, London architect Marcus Collins (who was married to their eldest sister Florette).
[21] Within a few years Joseph Grunbaum died[24] and Gilbert Frankau invested heavily in a cigarette-making concern, W. Sandorides & Co., to launch a new cigarette brand, Lucana.