I read about the affair in a biography of Alice. She was known to gossips, in the relevant period, as “Aurora Borah Alice,” which stayed in my mind as a very clever phrase.
Mrs. Borah’s pose is probably a photographic convention of the time, but her expression seems to say, “I can’t believe I married this putz!” rather than, “I’m overcome by the honor of being married to this wonderful man!”
Wow. I’ve been trawling around in the much of the 60 year period of 1880 to 1940 off and on for a few years now; I can’t get over some of the stuff I encounter, like Alice e.g., and I have never, ever heard of.
Another example is the ‘Great Sedition Trial’, in the 1940’s. The details of that trial neatly dovetail with todays NY Times refusal to dump the pulitizer awarded to it for that fellow’s reports of the paradise of the USSR. Utterly Orwellian.
(Now, totally of subject, have you ever heard of this? I’m sure you have, but I wanted to let you know of it if you hadn’t. I learned of it the first time today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism )