Queer Places:
1180 Murray Hill Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA
Hambourg Conservatory, 495 Sherbourne St, Toronto, ON M4X 1K7, Canada
Isabelle McClung Hambourg (November 4, 1877 – October 10, 1938)
was the daughter of Judge
Samuel McClung of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a close friend of the
celebrated author Willa Cather.
Beside
Isabelle McClung
and
Edith
Lewis, Willa Cather had close
relationships with a number of other women, including the writers
Elizabeth Shepley
Sargent, Dorothy
Canfield Fisher, Zoe Atkins, and
Sarah Orne Jewett, who was
Cather's literary mentor.
She married violinist Jan Hambourg and moved to Canada. In 1920 the couple left Toronto to reside in Paris. Here at their elegant apartment on the rue du Bac they gave weekly soirees where he played chamber music with violinists Jacques Thibaud and David Hochstein, the latter chosen to represent the hero in Willa Cather’s novel One of Ours. The violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his sisters were frequent guests.
References:
 Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time Paperback – January 29, 2026 by Elisa Rolle |
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