Tina Whitaker
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Tina Whitaker (born Tina Scalia 1858–1957) was an Italian writer and hostess.
She was the daughter of General
She married Joseph Whitaker, whose family had established a Marsala wine business in Sicily, and then diversified into other businesses. Their story is told in Raleigh Trevelyan's 1972 Princes Under the Volcano: Two Hundred Years of a British Dynasty in Sicily. The couple had two daughters; the elder of whom married General Antonio Di Giorgio (1868-1932), a Minister of War who fought in the 1st and 2nd wars in Abyssinia. Thus the family was firmly established in the upper echelons of Italian Society.[1]
Choosing to settle in
In 1907 she published Sicily & England: Political and Social Reminiscences 1848-1870. This was republished in 1948, when she was 90, under the title Tina Whitaker Scalia, Sicily and England. Political memories: life of Italian exiles in England (1848-1870), with a premise by Biagio Pace. Both editions were widely and well reviewed.[2] An earlier work, Love in the Sunny South, was published with the encouragement of Eliza Lynn Linton.[3] British cultural historian Edward Chaney sums her up as "formidable"[4]
Her house still stands, and is open as a museum, displaying the Whitaker collections of art and natural history.
References
- ISBN 978-3039110537.
- ^ "Untitled Document". web.tiscali.it. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-571-28892-2. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ISBN 0714644749.
