Edith Shackleton Heald

Her brother Ivan Shackleton Heald (1883–1916) was "Fleet Street's most acclaimed humorous writer" until he joined the Royal Flying Corps and died in the First World War.

[4] She was not the only lesbian writing for the Evening Standard in the 1930s, as Evelyn Irons moved there from the Daily Mail while recovering from a "tempestuous affair" with Vita Sackville-West.

[1] Yeats spent a good deal of time at her home, the Chantry House in Steyning, Sussex, where she lived with her sister Nora.

[6][4] R. F. Foster, Yeats' official biographer, wrote: "While no longer capable of full intercourse, his relationship with Edith was intensely sexual: surviving blurry snapshots show her sunbathing bare-breasted in the Steyning garden under his rapturous gaze.

[4][5] Obermer enjoyed her life of international travel, arts patronage and parties, and was unwilling to divorce her wealthy husband, even if it had been possible in the 1930s.