Julie Wheelwright
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526 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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No, it's a miserable marriage.
He's very abusive.
Oh, no.
She recounts many instances of
domestic abuse.
I mean, this is from her point of view, so we don't have his point of view, but I think that things happen later in terms of their story that suggests that, yeah, he probably was very abusive to her.
So they come back and she immediately leaves.
The other
driving thing for Matauri to leave, to go to Paris, is money.
She's always short of money and this is something which is a motivation for her to do a lot of things in her life.
She wants respectability, she wants stability, but she also needs cash.
So they divorce, and even though a Dutch court awards her both the custody of Non and alimony, MacLeod pleads poverty, and I think he gives her a bit of money at first, but she has to make a living somehow because he's not going to support her.
So she says that's why she went to Paris.
So again, I mentioned these letters that were published in 1917, and they're so revealing about so many different aspects, not just of her story, but they tell us a lot about what it was like for women on the stage, women of the demi-monde, women who wanted to be artists, who didn't have family support at that time.
So what does she do?
Well, she goes to Paris, sets herself up, puts in ads to newspapers to do things like teaching German lessons or piano lessons, or she really wants to become a mannequin.
So these are the early models.
First catwalk in Paris is 1908.
So she's really attracted to all of that.
And it doesn't happen, but where she does get work is as an artist model in Montmartre.
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