Iris Tree

Iris Tree (1897 - 1968) was a English poet and actress, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was her father. She was sought after, as a young woman, as an artists' model, being painted by Augustus John, simultaneously by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, and sculpted by Jacob Epstein, showing her bobbed hair (she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train) that, along with other behaviour, caused much scandal. She was photographed by Man Ray. She ran with Nancy Cunard for a time, in a set at the Eiffel Tower Restaurant of Rudolph Stulik; and acted alongside Diana Cooper in the mid-1920s.

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She had studied at the Slade School of Art. She contributed verse to the 1917 Sitwell anthology Wheels; her published collections were Poems (1920) and The Traveller and other Poems (1927).

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She married twice, first the actor and ex-officer of the Austrian cavalry, Friedrich von Ledebur-Wicheln. They both appear (after their divorce) in the 1956 film version of Moby-Dick. Her second marriage was to Curtis Moffat, a New Yorker; Ivan Moffat, the screenwriter, was their son.

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1897: 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar)....

1968: 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar)....

Poet: Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. Poets are often regarded as imaginative thinkers or writers. Bad poets are called poetasters....

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