Desperado: The Untamed Life of Clare Sheridan: Seduction, Sculpture and Spies

Clare Frewen was born in 1885 into what seemed to be the lap of luxury, raised by a glamorous socialite and a descendant of English and Irish gentry.After a marriage to Wilfrid, a descendant of the famed playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan ended in tragedy, she embraced her independence – travelling to Russia in the wake of the revolution, becoming the first woman hired by the New York World, and honing her craft as a sculptor – with a sensational catalogue of subjects – including cousin Winston Churchill, H.G. Wells, Gladys Cooper, Mahatma Gandhi, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Herbert Henry Asquith, Charlie Chaplin, Benito Mussolini and composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Captivated by her fearlessness and talent, Clare attracted a remarkable coterie of lovers throughout her lifetime – from Russian revolutionaries to American millionaires, to Arab Sheikhs.Clare also became an acclaimed travel writer, memoirist, diarist, and novelist. As well as creating over 100 works of art, she wrote 20 books, in addition to dozens of newspaper and magazine articles for The Times, the Daily Mail, The New York Herald, Boston Globe and others.

• Publication date: 8 September 2026
• Page count: 208
• Dimensions: Height 242 mm; Width 169 mm; Thickness 32 mm
• Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
• Format: Hardback
• ISBN-13: 9781917458689