She could have been one of our great-aunts. She was from that remarkable generation of educated, unmarried women who chose to make an independent life as mistresses of their own destinies. Jessie Traill (1881-1967) is the subject of a new biography by Jo Oliver. It is Oliver’s fifth book. Jessie Traill’s life-long ‘occupations’ were art and travel.
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