Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon

EG had begun writing to amuse herself and others, but by 1908 her husband had spent all their capital, causing them to go into debt and borrow from friends, family, and their own assets. This...

EG adapted Three Weeks for the stage, and played the role of the Lady in the private production at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 23 July 1908. Sir Charles Hawtrey produced the play, while...

In 1884 EG 's sister, Lucy (later Lady Duff Gordon) (having left home at sixteen), married, at about twenty-two, a forty-year-old bachelor named James Wallace . The marriage quickly ended in divorce.

James Wallace , husband of EG 's sister Lucy , gambled and drank their money away. Lucy finally divorced him in 1889; her mother paid for the divorce with the little money that David Kennedy...

Her sister, Lucy Christiana (later Lady Duff Gordon), who was two years older, became a famous couturière under the name of Lucile .