Sunday 28 May 2023

1555) Jane Anderson

Jane Anderson (1888 – 1972). American-Spanish war reporter journalist who broadcast Nazi propaganda in Germany during World War II. She was indicted on charges of treason in 1943, but charges were dropped after the war for lack of evidence.

Born Foster Anderson, her father, Robert M. "Red" Anderson was a close friend of the showman Buffalo Bill. Her mother, Ellen Luckie Anderson, came from a wealthy and prominent Atlanta family.
In 1910, in New York, she married composer Deems Taylor. The marriage ended in divorce in 1918. While in New York, she became a successful writer of short stories, which were published in national magazines from 1910 to 1913.
She was a lover of the novelist Joseph Conrad, who used her as the model for his heroine, Doña Rita, in The Arrow of Gold in 1919. In October 1934, she married a Spanish nobleman in Seville, Count Eduardo Alvarez de Cienfuegos, and settled with him in Spain.
 
- "As a young woman she was notable for her red-haired beauty and her intelligence." https://www.flickr.com/photos/puzzlemaster/14324279094
 
- "Jane (who spoke French fluently) was then one of the most lusciously beautiful women in the world, tall, slim, with long curly orange hair, blue eyes, high forehead, a lovely mouth and nose, and a lovely soft complexion." https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...
 
- "Parece ser que era una mujer muy bella, con una llamativa cabellera pelirroja. Algunos la apodaron como “el melocotón de Georgia” (It seems that she was a very beautiful woman, with striking red hair. Some nicknamed it "the Georgia peach.") http://amantesdelahistoria-aliado.blogspot.com/.../jane...
 

 

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