were few like her." Enthoven knew Oscar Wilde very well and would visit him at his home as a young girl. After these visits she would return home and copy down the stories he had told her. In 1948, Enthoven presented the British Library with a pamphlet containing four prose poems of Wilde's that she had had printed and bound under the title Echoes. In 1889, Wilde dedicated a poem to Enthoven entitled Remorse. (a study in saffron). It is possible that Enthoven engaged in lesbian relationships after the death of her husband. She was a central member of London's lesbian haut monde. This group included women such as the writer Radclyffe Hall, best known for writing the banned lesbian classic The Well of Loneliness, the sculptor Una Troubridge, the painter Romaine Brooks, and the tennis player and fencer Toupie Lowther. The group referred to themselves as 'The Circle' and would regularly meet to have dinner parties at their homes in the exclusive London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, visit the theatre, or dance at clubs in Soho such as the "Cave of Harmony" and "The Orange Tree". The women lived a privileged lifestyle of grand houses, villas in the sun, inherited incomes, successful careers, and stylish lovers. In the 1930s, however, Enthoven was dropped by her friends Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge, with Troubridge accusing Enthoven of "repudiating her own kind when opportune to do so", and adding "she's a rat and we have no use for her". Enthoven had played the leading role in a production of Colette's novel Chéri which had been adapted by Troubridge. The play was an unequivocal failure, and this may have contributed to the demise of the women's friendship. In 1923, Enthoven was instrumental in bringing the Italian actress Eleonora Duse over to England for her farewell engagement. Theatrical activities Enthoven was a keen playwright and had her first play, Montmartre, produced at the Alhambra Theatre, London in 1912 as part of a revue called Kill That Fly!. The Observer gave a favourable review of the sketch, writing: "the little wordless thrill, 'Montmartre', by Gabrielle Enthoven, is the most thrilling thing of its kind we have seen". She was the president and founding member, alongside her close friends Edith Craig and Christopher St John, of the Pioneer Players, a London-based theatre society founded in 1911. The company was formed from members of the