Gertrude sanford legendre autobiography of miss

She was born at Aiken, South Carolina, to a wealthy New York family. She and her siblings were the inspiration for the Seton siblings in the Broadway hit Holiday, made into a film in 1938 in which Katharine Hepburn played Gertie's character.

She was educated under the notorious Miss Charlotte at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia. She was eighteen when she went on her first hunting trip which ignited a passion for big game hunting and collecting specimens for natural history museums.

Before the war in 1939, she went on expeditions to Africa, South East Asia, Iran, Canada and Alaska.

Gertrude sanford legendre autobiography of miss

In 1928, she and her sister were invited to the French Riviera with the Murphys where they hung out with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Harpo Marx and Somerset Maugham, who called the sisters “crazy show-offs”.

There she met Sidney J. Legendre who had been studying at Oxford and who she would follow on an expedition to Abyssinia. They were ma