Edith Shackleton Heald

Chantry House, Steyning, 2017 Edith Shackleton Heald (12 September 1885 – 4 November 1976) was a British journalist who was the last mistress of the poet W. B. Yeats from 1937 until his death in 1939, and lived with the lesbian and gender non-conforming artist Gluck from 1944 until her death in 1976.

Yeats called her "the best paid woman journalist of her time", and Arnold Bennett called her the "most brilliant reviewer" in London. Provided by Wikipedia

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