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Christa Winsloe and Lota de Macedo Soares. Similarities and more. Photos as well.

\\ Also, end (PART TWO) of the post is about some important changes on this Tumblr blog (finished today.) //

In the past, I thought about this, but no post until now.

Two famous people. Far away countries (half a World away or so), more than 21 years in between, but a lot of similarities anyway. 

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BIRTH: 

A. Christa Winsloe (der 23 Dezember, 1888), German/Scottish, born in Deutschland, Darmstadt. 

B. Lota de Macedo Soares (16 de Março, 1910) (Full name (longer) described as "uma brasileira de muitos nomes e sobrenomes" — Flores raras e banalíssimas. (I have it (as e-book), but haven't read yet. It has VERY rare photos.)) Brazilian, born in Paris (Father from high society worked in the Navy (or whatever it is) and was in France at the time.) 

OCCUPATION: 

A: a) Art = At first (since small child, I guess), drawings (also some were sold for magazines by the single adult (free from husband), "studied art" (said by Christa herself \ some time after school) = sculpture (~ I was a bit unhappy (by Christa too)), but then became a wonderful sculptor (people at first, then focus on favourite animals), b) then complete switch = writer. 

B: a) Art = as higher education, studied painting and graduated at about 25 y.o. (has some paintings at home => she was in her 20's when she stated to study (and some of fellow students became very famous later.) \\ b) without any training switched to and became architect and landscape designer. 

FAMOUS FOR: 

A: Mädchen in Uniform (related = before, a play, and after, a book.) 

B: Parque do Flamengo em Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. 

PERSONALITY AND LOOK: 

A: Smart, clever; talented, cracked jokes; very emotional; passionate; low self esteem as an adult (at least since or in US), communicative introvert (the most correct of all what I've been thinking for months, I hope); black hair = long as a girl, then short  hair (since soon after school = 18.5 was finish, I guess), height ? (tall as a girl if compared with classmates, the fimal height is unknown) 

B: Smart, talented, very emotional, passionate, extrovert (and was bossy when needed), long black hair in a bun & years later, muuch shorter (no idea when cut, as the film (see in the part titled background) can be  wrong, height = short (in the film, 160 cm.) 

FAMILY: 

A: Mum died when Christa was 11 or so (no information when, supposedly in late 1899 or early 1900, thanks to Das Mädchen Manuela and one (still not posted anywhere) document related to brother Ralph Winsloe.) 

BUT despite Mutti (Mum) was favourite and affectionate parent, Christa didn't hate father for that she was sent away to boarding school Stift with military-like regime. (It wasn't even his idea, but he agreed only.) The proof: anywhere in the part about the school (the book Das Mädchen Manuela) main character Manuela (Christa's semi-autobiograpy) tells about father positively (books she brought to the school were from his library, and it was the way for Christa the writer to recommend her favourite writer Émil Zola), and in "what could happen" parts about father in Italy, only positivity, and also that he missed his daughter (parts inside of the big part about the school as well.) 

B: Mother died when Lota was a girl, and she spent part of childhood with only father whom she hated. (Maybe other relatives lived there too, I don't remember, but as parent figure\to raise, no one more. She had a sister, but it wasn't much help for nervous system, I guess.) 

BACKGROUND: 

A: Father was cavalry Lieutenant-Colonel (his highest rank before retirement.) He (and Mum later, since he married at 28) had invitations to Royal balls which they had to attend. (Mum from countryside wanted to do something important instead of it, but had no choice.) 

B: Lota was from high society (e.g. family (or father inherited it) had a farm, when older, she was friends with & knew famous people, one close friend was Carlos Lacerda, a person who ran for President as an opposition towards communist party (see part Communism somewhere below), and as far as I remember, was imprisoned for some period (political situation was Hell, so no wonder if it is correct).) 

O filme\the film (Flores Raras = original title): When a person (no spoilers who) read Lota's father's name in an article in a newspaper incorrectly (as Spanish, instead of Portuguese), she corrected, [Zhoze Eduardu] (if use English to write sounds) and then added who he was (alive still), as the response to a question, "He slept with my mother nine months before I was born." Not a word like father, dad, relative, etc. Despite indecent phrasing, the idea to distance oneself from a horrible close relative is exactly as he deserved. (He hadn't been close as a person for years (wonderful).) As it was said to me by a former friend, somebody (no spoilers who) encouraged Lota to forgive her father. (It's not in the film.) Soon after that, the horrible man died.

PREFRENCES: 

A: Pansexual . . . (as far as it understandable, not bisexual = a  person, not gender was important at the time of falling in love) . . . but a lot of sources say lesbian and no mentions of at least one man* since somewhere in 1934—?, not long), as the reason is probably that when trying to "woo" Hertha Thiele (in 1932, I guess), the words or subtext was that she was lesbian. *There were three men (two as relationship) in total (and 2/3 (platonic and not) were before the "your aunt's family won't support you, so let's marry" marriage.) 

B: Lesbian. Also, a quote, ~ "My father wanted a grandson, but I couldn't give him that." (Source: most likely, English book The More I Owe You (a Texan gay (= man) wrote it, and therefore, not Portuguese at all, only in very rare cases (I haven't finished it yet).)

POEMS:

A: Christa got a lovd poem from Dorothy Thompson, but it wasn't for publication.

B: Lota's girlfriend (no "spoilers" who) wrote some poems for Lota (about her) and one book of poems was dedicated to her. 

COMMUNISM: 

A: A member of German Communist Party which (as I understood last year after having read it) gave access to French Resistance membership. Christa received difficult tasks, "but she completed them all." (No idea which source, but quoted words are correct.) It means the fight not only against Devil Hitler, but against tyranny at the same time. 

B: Brazil in 1960's or so (not exact years here) had horrible regime of communist party similar to partly prison-like situation when even drivers who crossed some boards (between states, maybe) needed to show documents. Lota hated the regime with its Hell, but I guess, she hated communism itself too (unfortunately.) She was from high society, after all. BUT she was against tyranny at the same time. 

WISH: 

A & B: It can be summarised as, why men can have possibility to get a job at good companies and\or possibility to do something important, but the access for women is denied? 

LANGUAGES: 

A: French was the first new language, then (also) English at Stift, later (in no particular order), Italian, Hungarian (no idea to which extent, but French was (almost?) like a native, as second boarding school was in Swizerland (French part) and then during the war, France with French Resistance where tragedy happened. In later 1900's or early 1910's, Christa taught young clerks English. 

B: For some period as a girl, Lota studied in Belgium, so French was the first new language, then a little of English. Plus, she taught or helped to learn Portuguese (to at least one of 2 known girlfriends.)

POEMS: 

A: Girlfriend journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote a sonnet (as one article said) about her huge love for Christa. It was personal (not for publication.) 

B: Lota's girlfriend (no "spoilers" who) wrote some poems to Lota (about her), and one book of poems was dedicated to her. 

PARENTING: 

A: Mutti (Mum) (kind of, the closest to it) When Christa and Dorothy Thompson spent time (four weeks, as far as I remember) in Southern Italy, they went there with Dorothy's baby son Mike and his nurse. Christa was 45‐46 years old. 

B: Mamãe (Mummy.) Lota adopted infant daughter (she was maybe 45* y.o.), before (= years before the events in the book & the film) she adopted a son (no idea what happened (lived together or just financial help) and how exactly as the film has no mentions of this person.) The daughter is the one who helped with information to create the film. (After all, it was in 2013, almost fourty five years after Lota left us.) 

*mistake fixed

ALSO: 

A: Car driver, had a cook (for some periods.) 

B: Car driver, had a cook (for long time, I guess.) 

GOODBYE: 

A: Christa was shot by the criminal Lambert when she was almost 55.6 years old. (No idea whether or not horrible girlfriend (abusive\addict\etc.) Similone Gentet was killed as well, but hopefully, she was, as she deserved it.) 

B: Lota was very emotional, and after some time in mental hospital (due to horror in the country) and some travelling with two women to  (Europe, if I remember right \\ not in the film), her nervous state became worse and worse, and later (how long?), she  committed suicide (hospital couldn't save her.) The film has different "thing" of what led to the end, but the same "kind") and different premise of suicide itself. (No Idea why the film changed reality.) Lota was slightly older than 57.6 years old. 

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MORE (IMAGINE WHAT IF :D): As understandable, these two incredible women had a lot in common. What if, just to imagine them together, at least, as friends or more, much more ;) (without any talks about\mention of politics.) 

CHRISTA

1933(4)

 unknown date *Queen Christa*

Goddess Christa (sometime (late 1920's?, no idea) in München, Deutschland)) 

1927 (if I'm not mistaken) 

LOTA

(Maybe in her 40's)

Short hair (unknow year)

Film version (short hair, I mean.) How incredibly beautiful she is. How is it even possible? <3 

tartan shirt :D and a bun (unknown year) 

In the centre. Fofa (cute) :D Time: early 1960's or so (during the time of building Parque do Flamengo.) 

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Personally, Christa & Lota are so very yes (jaaa & siiim.) 

Despite I have a lot in common with both, if think seriously who, it's Christa as the number one (if sum up various personal reasons, not also think about similarities with, for example, my relatives), and no matter who else famous can be favourite ever,  she's the one, and it's 9+ years of Christa in my life. 

Danke Sehr, held König(in) Chris(ta). (Thank you very much, hero King/Queen Chris(ta).) (This wonderful woman used Chris & Christian about herself in letters to Dorothy Thompson.) 

Muito obrigada, rainha Dona Lota. (Thank you very much, Queen Dona Lota) 

Glück ist as duas mulheres famosas (Zusammen? Como uma ideia, siiim.) (Happiness is the two famous women. (Together? As an idea, yyyeees.))

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PART TWO. 

As the very top says, "no post until now." 

Something similar to not until now. Due to some political Hell, in 2017 or so, Tumblr reset blog themes of some users (based on where they lived at the time), and I had to restore chosen & modified themes of blogs (blogs that I had at the time.) 

Plus (no idea how many years ago), one day, Tumblr cut all the description (if a user had it longer than something short.) It was fixed, but it took a lot of time (to find all missed information.) 

BUT (if about this Tumblr blog only) that restoration of the original theme & description fix took a lot of time & even HTML of the theme was fixed a little (if something couldn't be changed using special panel with parameters of the theme.) 

And it hadn't been fixed completely until today. I thought that date format of posts is exactly as I wanted, but no, so HTML fix worked.) Even additional description (link to a post) in so called "about" (on sidebar = the left side of the blog) was just the same "copy and paste" information which was as part of muuuch longer text edited in late 2019 (so long ago, dammit.) 

HTML fixes are exhausting, but when a theme is just few (hopefully, possible) fixes away, it worth it. 

Christa said it the best (different circumstances, but no matter), "I want to rest, but he, oh, he—"      (Change "he" to HTML \ theme fix + description changes or fix (with all the links if Tumblr demands something, e.g. https:// only, if http:// the site doesn't let save any changes, HTML and description alike.) 

Plus, yesterday or a few days ago, I realised that (damn you, changes on Tumblr) any links (that lead to a tag that has 2 or more words) need to have + in between of words, instead of ‐ as before, so it needs to be fixed on other (not abandoned) thematic Tumblr blogs. (Fixed here finally.) *sigh*