322 Highland Road
Year Built: 1915
Home of Edith Clifford Williams, non-conformist daughter of Henry Shaler Williams. Edith, known by choice as "Clifford", used her inheritance from the sale of her parents home, "Northcote," to build this house.
When her parents disapproved of the man she wished to marry, she declared she would never marry, and she did not. Instead, she maintained a fifty-year affair with the influential Chinese intellectual, activist, and diplomat, Hu Shi. Their romance and detailed letters are captured in the book, A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: the half century romance of Hu Shi & Edith Clifford Williams. Clifford, herself an accomplished artist in Alfred Steiglitz's inner circle, was featured in Marcel Duchamp's modernist journal Rongwrong.
Year Built: 1915
Home of Edith Clifford Williams, non-conformist daughter of Henry Shaler Williams. Edith, known by choice as "Clifford", used her inheritance from the sale of her parents home, "Northcote," to build this house.
When her parents disapproved of the man she wished to marry, she declared she would never marry, and she did not. Instead, she maintained a fifty-year affair with the influential Chinese intellectual, activist, and diplomat, Hu Shi. Their romance and detailed letters are captured in the book, A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: the half century romance of Hu Shi & Edith Clifford Williams. Clifford, herself an accomplished artist in Alfred Steiglitz's inner circle, was featured in Marcel Duchamp's modernist journal Rongwrong.
