Lady Duff Gordon, Leading London Modiste, Is Dead
Dallas Times-Herald
She was the widow of Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, with whom she escaped in a lifeboat from the Titanic when the great liner went down in 1912. Two years, prior to that, she had established the dressmaking house of "Lucile, Ltd," with branches in London, Paris, New York and Chicago.
Related Biographies:
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon
Relates to Place:
London, London, England
Contributor
Randy Bryan Bigham