Courts’s Reviews > Gluck: 1895-1978 : Her Biography > Status Update

The Truth, as Gluck felt it, was that Nesta was her inspiration and her wife: ‘Love, you are such an inspiration to me, and that you should be my darling wife too is all any man can expect out of life, don’t you agree?’ The fact that Nesta already had a husband in the ordinary sense of the word and that the world did not define Gluck as a man, were not truths with the same weight as truths of the heart.

"Her father, a conservative and conventional man, was utterly dismayed by her ‘outré clobber’, her mother referred to a ‘kink in the brain’ which she hoped would pass, and both were uneasy at going to the theatre in 1918 with Gluck wearing a wide Homburg hat and long blue coat, her hair cut short and a dagger hanging at her belt."

Oh no, I stan her already