Caresse crosby biography of albert

English philanthropist and founder of the Black Sun Press. Born Mary Phelps Jacob in New York, New York, in 1892; died in Rome, Italy, in 1970; married a Peabody; married Harry Crosby (died); married a third time.

Caresse Crosby came from a "crystal chandelier background" and could claim such ancestors as Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford and Civil War general Robert Fulton.

She was also related to a minister to the Court of St. James's. When she was presented at Court, King George V chased and secured her hat that had blown off in the wind during a garden party. Crosby was early drawn to the arts, and the magazine St.

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Nicholas purchased one of her drawings. She wrote and printed her own newspaper, using a gelatin board.

Crosby first married into the Peabody family, which led to wealth and the acquisition of J.P. Morgan as an uncle.

But it was with her second husband, Harry Crosby, that she entered the creative world to which she would b