Travels With Their Aunts
Atlantic, The, May, 2007 by Sally Singer
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Illustration by Michael Witte
"It is a notable fact that wealthy ladies past middle age very often find their firmest friends among homosexuals,” writes James Lord in his 1994 memoir, Six Exceptional Women, . He continues:
Heterosexual men have little time to spare—or should one say waste?—on older women, no matter how rich, unless there is a convincing likelihood of appropriating their money, whereas homosexuals enjoy the refinements of costly sociability and elegance for their own sake.
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Lord—biographer of Alberto Giacometti and Dora Maar and bon ami de tout Paris circa 1960—is charmingly up-front about the fabulous holidays on the Riviera or the Greek islands that he wangled out of well-propertied, colorful old biddies like the freakily fabulous narcissist Marie-Laure de Noailles (40-bedroom proto-McMansion in Hyères) and the formidable Greek Errieta Perdikidi (Skyros villa: “plain and unassuming but possessed an air, an atmosphere, a character that ...
