She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second World War helped Allied airmen escape the German occupation.

Newspaper reports, which may not be reliable, say she started as an errand girl after being forced to leave school, presumably for financial reasons.

[4] Lady Duff-Gordon recognised that Kathleen's height of at least 6 feet (180 cm),[8] elegant figure and blonde hair, made her an ideal clothes model.

[11] It was probably at one such event around 1916 that Florenz Ziegfeld and his wife Billie Burke discovered Duff-Gordon's designs and her model Dolores.

[13] The fashion scene was only part of the show, however, which continued to have comedians, singers and dancers, and Duff-Gordon's models were not mentioned as principal players on the bill.

[12] In 1920, however, she had her first speaking part in the musical comedy Sally, where she played the minor role of Mrs Ten Broek.

[22] She was the subject of syndicated articles that appeared in newspapers across America, often praising her beauty in the most effusive and florid terms.

One article claimed her beauty was "acclaimed in every civilized land"[4] and there were geometric diagrams demonstrating the perfect symmetry of her face.

[18] Of Duff-Gordon's models generally, Randolph Carter has said that their "regal manner and astonishing hauteur were helpful in maintaining proper decorum at the Midnight Frolic [1918 etc.]

[12] Of Dolores specifically, it has been said that her unsmiling "blank hauteur"[2] was the template for the performance style of the modern fashion model.

[17] In 1925, the American press reported that the couple lived on the Île Saint-Louis in a house overlooking Notre-Dame Cathedral,[23] most likely the three-storey apartment at 18 Quai d'Orleans referred to in later sources.

[27] After her marriage, Dolores adopted the severe masculine style of dress and hair popular at that time, appearing in Eve, The Lady's Pictorial in 1925 in a suit jacket and tie.

[2] The photograph appeared, slightly changed, on the cover of Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan in 2013.

"[citation needed] In 1946, Tudor Wilkinson was placed on the OSS "red flag" list of people and organisations that were involved in the art trade under the Nazis, with the caveat that police reports indicated that he was active in the Resistance.

[33] She wrote that a short wave radio had been concealed at 18 Quai d'Orléans so that the Resistance could communicate with London, and machine guns were hidden behind the fireplace and elsewhere in the apartment.

Dolores collapsed with a "heart attack" and her husband was burned on the arms and legs when he tried to extinguish an incendiary with water.

The situation outside was just as bad, with whole buildings collapsing from fire while German snipers shot and killed French firefighters attending to the blazes.

Tartière left Paris immediately after this attack, and her account provides no later information about the Wilkinsons or whether Eva survived her injuries.