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Done & Dunne

6: Lady Enid Kenmare AKA Lady Killmore

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this high society and hot gossip of an episode, Dominick Dunne weaves the tale of much married and much widowed Lady Enid Kenmare as first told in his March 1991Vanity Fair piece "Memento Mori". Lots of marriages, scandals, and a woman who was quite a legend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess, on this journey All Things Dominic Dunn.

0:07.0

Today, I have a story to tell you that I am fascinated by. I have been since March of 1991,

0:13.6

when Vanity Fair publishes an article called Memento Mori by Our Man Nick. This is the tale of the much-married and much-widoed

0:22.8

Eynette Linderman, Cameron, Cavendish, Furness, Castle Ross. We here at Hemlock

0:29.6

Creatives do have another podcast called Trashy Divorces. And I can't cover this story there

0:36.2

because this lady doesn't divorce them.

0:39.2

She kills them.

0:40.3

So perfect for done and done.

0:42.6

Maybe she doesn't kill them exactly, but there is a long line of dead grooms.

0:46.9

As Dominic Dunwell write in the teaser introduction for this article,

0:52.1

Enid Kinmer was hooked on rich husbands, casinos, and heroin. Emerald

0:57.7

Kuhnard will give Enid her first moniker of the Stucco Venus. This will not be, however, the

1:04.1

moniker she is remembered by. That one is provided by Somerset Mom and is the much more well-known moniker for Enid of Lady Kilmore.

1:15.0

Oh, friends, I have a story for you today. Let's investigate.

1:20.3

Music What an opening paragraph from this article that I'm going to read to you.

1:39.7

This article is released by the time Dominic Dunn has had seven years in a number of books fully writing.

1:46.3

He's truly developing his talents, especially in these nonfiction pieces.

1:51.2

And wauza, this kind of story is his wheelhouse.

1:55.6

The opening of Memento Mori is going to draw the reader in, with connections to people and ideas that they

2:02.4

would already be familiar with set in current context.

2:07.0

From the first paragraphs of this piece, there are people in fashionable society who throughout

2:12.4

their lives carry with them the burden of their scandals as ineradicable from their

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