Lilian Shelley

[3] By the time her brother Albert was baptized at the same church in October 1894, the family was living at Woodwell House, St George's Road.

[6] In the 1911 census, the older Albert is still living in Bristol and is listed as a public house manager, while the younger one, Shelley's brother, aged sixteen, is a publisher's reader.

In 1913/14 she toured in the revue Step This Way which appeared in Birmingham, Sheffield and Scotland, and probably elsewhere, as one of the main acts mentioned in the billing.

[17] In the summer of 1914, Shelley sang in cabaret at the Cave of the Golden Calf in Heddon Street, founded by Madame Strindberg.

[23] According to Nina Hamnett, writing in 1932, Lilian Shelley and Betty May were the "principal supports" of the Crab Tree Club, which was started by Augustus John in 1913.

[32] In 1915 M. J. Woddis described her appearance as "a Botticelli-looking person, with strangely cut black hair, which is adorned with a golden-embroidered head-band, a perfect model of an Egyptian goddess"[33] while John Quinn wrote to Jacob Epstein in 1915 that Shelley was "a beautiful thing ... red lips and hair as black as a Turk's, stunning figure, great sense of humour".

[34] In October 1920, Kinematograph Weekly commented that Alla Nazimova, the star of The Red Lantern, bore a remarkable resemblance to Shelley.

On one occasion, Shelley arrived at a gallery showing one of these works with a male friend who said to Epstein "Yes, I can see that you have depicted the vicious side of Lillian".

It told the story of a girl born in a Bristol slum who is led by an "indefinable yearning" to seek a more fulfilling life in London and Paris.

[37] In an interview in The Pall Mall Gazette in September 1923, Shelley confirmed that the book was by her and that it detailed her astonishing career.

[38] Shelley was still alive in September 1934, when she is recorded as a friend of Cecilia Hamilton who gave the artist Leonard Brooks "a couple of pounds" when he left London for Spain.

[39] Nick Rennison in Bohemian London (2017) says she was "... still modelling for Epstein in the early 1920s, but disappeared from view in the years to come and died, probably a suicide, in the 1930s.