Jan and Cora Gordon

The Waterford Standard on Saturday 22 May 1937, presented the Book of the Week, Jan and Cora Gordon 's ‘‘ Three Lands on Three Wheels .” The text is as follows: " One of the objections to the draft Constitution of Eire —another new name for the same old country —is that it puts women in a position of inferiority. All our most advanced women and female politicians are protesting that the new Constitution will deprive them of certain rights and drive them back to the home and family life. Personally, I don’t think the new Constitution will make one iota of difference to women; but in any case if family life can be made anything like the menage of Jan and Cora Gordon we should all be charmed with it.  Robert Frost , the American poet, who is creating a new cult, says: If men were as much men as lizards are lizards They’d be worth looking at.”  And I am certain that if family life had some of the adventure, some of the happy-go-lucky, carefree atmosphere, some of the joyou

An article in the Coventry Evening Telegraph, Tuesday 11 December 1934 (which I had not come across before), has the following title: " JAN AND CORA GORDON Exhibition of Artistic Works DISPLAY IN COVENTRY OPERA HOUSE VESTIBULE " The article mixes accounts of the art exhibition, Cora Gordon's talk on Sketching Through Europe" and various biographical anecdotes. " Considerable interest is already being shown in the exhibition of artistic works by Jan and Cora Gordon in the vestibule of the Coventry Opera House this week It will be recalled that both artists are among those who have addressed Coventry Repertory Circle . Both are art critics to leading national papers as well as being artists themselves, and are also well known for their travel books. Jan Gordon is in hospital, where he is making a good recovery from a serious illness. Jan and Cora Gordon are travellers in the true sense of the word. Wherever they have been they have been concerned less wi