Persephone Lewin, who is somewhere in the neighborhood of 45, is a grandmother, solver of murders, burlesque dancer, author, comedian, yachtswoman, and YouTube sensation. We fear she'll ask us what we do with our time...
From an article in an English newspaper, we learn she is a
Yachtswoman, forensic science writer, businesswoman, mother,
grandmother, musician, comedienne – oh, and burlesque artist; catch her
act on YouTube...That’s her real name, by the way. Her mother was Greek so, naturally, named her daughter after a Greek goddess.
We further discover:
1) She is 4-foot-11 and has over 400 pairs of shoes
2) Lewin met her husband at a yacht club
3) She was a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and has done stand-up
4) She had "her own manufacturing company (it made security fixings), [spent] ten
years of raising their two children and then, something completely
different, [worked in] forensic science."
5) Her husband worked for the coppers, matching up bite marks on murder victims to dental records of possible suspects. Together, their work launched a successful dual-autobiography and solved at least one murder, the strange death of a nine-year-old girl.
6) Even before all that:
She
could sing, dance, play the trumpet and had a real knack for making fin
de siècle costumes. At this point she hadn’t heard of burlesque, but
that’s what her act became. So, complete with that penguin – now called
Freddie – she took her very visual act to London, and is now a regular
at Madam JoJo’s Burlesque Show in Soho.
Persephone doesn't strip so much as hint at the stripping to come later on in this clip from her act. Not to worry, your imagination should do the rest...
Via the Gazette.
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