Eliza Davis

"While James was still living at home, he brought to the house literary and theatrical figures, including Oscar and Willie Wilde, who would play tennis in a nearby public garden with Julia and Eliza.

"[5] A younger sister, Florence Collins, published one novel, The Luddingtons (Heinemann 1905), about which Mrs Aria had this to say: "'You are the beauty of the family,' we advised her, and she accepted the verdict as condemning the volume to solitude.

Mrs Aria's literary and artistic salon included H. G. Wells, Isidore de Lara,[7] and C. R. W. Nevinson who painted a view of Fitzroy Square from the window of her flat.

[8] Gilbert Frankau's novelist daughter Pamela recalled that Mrs Aria "was the friend of such gods as George Moore, Ivor Novello, Michael Arlen, Sybil Thorndike and Rebecca West.

"[9] Mrs Aria's sister Julia Frankau "was wont to say, 'Unless Eliza receives each morning four letters from leading actresses which commence "Dearest" she looks unhappy.