12 Facts About Thelma Wood

Thelma Ellen Wood was an American artist, specialising in the traditional fine line drawing technique known as Silverpoint.

Thelma Wood was noted for her hectic private life, and her lesbian relationship with Djuna Barnes was fictionalized in Barnes' novel Nightwood.

Two months prior to their deaths, Thelma Wood enrolled at the St Louis School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St Louis.

Thelma Wood had a brief relationship with the poet Edna St Vincent Millay during the early 1920s.

Barnes was known for her jealousy with her lovers; Thelma Wood was known to be promiscuous with many women.

Thelma Wood became involved in an affair with a wealthy woman named Henriette Alice McCrea-Metcalf, leading to the end of her relationship with Barnes.

In Westport, Connecticut, Thelma Wood began a gourmet catering business that ultimately failed.

Thelma Wood was outraged, believing Barnes' portrayal was a misrepresentation, and claimed that the publication of the book ruined her life.

Thelma Wood became involved with Margaret Behrens, a realtor and antique dealer, and she moved into Behrens' home in Monroe, Connecticut.

Thelma Wood died of metastasized breast cancer in Danbury Hospital in 1970.

Thelma Wood's ashes were interred in the Behrens family plot in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Thelma Wood was the bad girlfriend of Djuna Barnes and she drove Djuna Barnes so crazy that she was the muse for Djuna Barnes's work.