A sculptor and an author. She was a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. She spent her childhood and youth in Ireland. She married Wilfred Sheridan in 1910 and they had three children, but the second daughter, Elizabeth, died of meningitis in 1914. Grief-stricken, Clare modelled a weeping angel for her child's grave and discovered a talent for sculpture. After the death of her husband in the First World War, she began exhibiting her portrait sculptures. Among her sitters were such prominent men and women like Guglielmo Marconi, Lord Asquith, Gladys Cooper, H.G. Wells and of course Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Lord Birkenhead, and Marie of Romania. An admirer of communism, she travelled in secret to the Soviet Union in 1920. There she sculpted Lenin and Trotsky, later publishing her diary of the trip. In 1922 became European correspondent of the American newspaper New York World interviewing senior European figures Mussolini, Mustafa Kemal, Primo de Rivera, Stamboulski, Obregón. She then went to Mexico and America, where she settled, becoming friends with Charlie Chaplin. Her second trip to Russia, in 1923, proved disillusioning. She took her children to live first in Turkey and then on the edge of the Sahara in Algeria. After the Second World War she became a Roman Catholic. She continued to sculpt and to write her memoirs.
A sculptor and an author. She was a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. She spent her childhood and youth in Ireland. She married Wilfred Sheridan in 1910 and they had three children, but the second daughter, Elizabeth, died of meningitis in 1914. Grief-stricken, Clare modelled a weeping angel for her child's grave and discovered a talent for sculpture. After the death of her husband in the First World War, she began exhibiting her portrait sculptures. Among her sitters were such prominent men and women like Guglielmo Marconi, Lord Asquith, Gladys Cooper, H.G. Wells and of course Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Lord Birkenhead, and Marie of Romania. An admirer of communism, she travelled in secret to the Soviet Union in 1920. There she sculpted Lenin and Trotsky, later publishing her diary of the trip. In 1922 became European correspondent of the American newspaper New York World interviewing senior European figures Mussolini, Mustafa Kemal, Primo de Rivera, Stamboulski, Obregón. She then went to Mexico and America, where she settled, becoming friends with Charlie Chaplin. Her second trip to Russia, in 1923, proved disillusioning. She took her children to live first in Turkey and then on the edge of the Sahara in Algeria. After the Second World War she became a Roman Catholic. She continued to sculpt and to write her memoirs.
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