Joe Carstairs

**Marion Barbara 'Joe' Carstairs** (1 ga Fabrairu, 1900)&nbsp;– 18 ga Disamba 1993)  ta kasance mai kuɗi a tseren kwale-kwale na Burtaniya wanda aka san shi da saurinta, salon rayuwarta mai ban mamaki, da rashin bin ƙa'idodi na jinsi. A shekarun 1920, an san ta da 'mace mafi sauri a kan ruwa'. 

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haifi Carstairs a shekarar 1900 a Mayfair, London, ɗan Frances (Fannie) Evelyn Bostwick, wata 'yar Amurka mai gado wacce ita ce 'ya ta biyu ga Jabez Bostwick da matarsa Helen.  Mahaifin Joe Carstairs na shari'a shi ne jami'in sojan Scotland Kyaftin Albert Carstairs, na farko a cikin Royal Irish Rifles   sannan daga baya Gimbiya ta Wales's Own .  Kyaftin Carstairs ya sake shiga cikin rundunar soji mako guda kafin a haifi Joe; shi da Evelyn sun rabu jim kaɗan bayan haka.  Akalla wani mai rubuta tarihin rayuwa ya nuna cewa kyaftin ɗin ba shine mahaifin Joe ba. 

Mahaifiyar Carstairs, wacce take shan giya da miyagun ƙwayoyi, daga baya ta auri Kyaftin Francis Francis, wanda ta haifi wasu 'ya'ya biyu da shi, Evelyn (Sally) Francis da Francis Francis Jr. (Frank). Ta saki Kyaftin Francis don ta auri ɗan Faransa Roger de Périgny a shekarar 1915, amma daga ƙarshe ta bar shi saboda rashin aminci. [1] Mijinta na huɗu kuma na ƙarshe, wanda ta aura a shekarar 1920, shine Serge Voronoff, [1] wani likitan tiyata ɗan Rasha wanda ya shahara a shekarun 1920 da 1930 saboda aikin da yake yi na dasa ƙwayar ƙwayayen biri zuwa ga maza don manufar farfaɗowa . Tsawon wasu shekaru Evelyn ta yi imani da ka'idodin Voronoff, kuma ta ba da kuɗin bincikensa kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakinsa a dakin gwaje-gwaje a Collège de France da ke Paris. [1] Evelyn ta mutu a watan Maris na 1921. [Note 1]

Carstairs ta yi rashin jituwa da mahaifiyarta, wadda ta tura ta zuwa Makarantar 'Yan Mata ta Low-Heywood, wata makarantar kwana da ke Stamford, Connecticut, tana da shekaru 11 saboda ɗabi'arta ta tawaye.  

### 1916–1934

Carstairs ta yi rayuwa mai kyau. Yawanci tana yin ado kamar namiji; tana da zane a hannu; kuma tana son injina, kasada da gudu. A bayyane take cewa tana da 'yan madigo, tana da mu'amala da mata da yawa, ciki har da Dolly Wilde - 'yar uwar Oscar Wilde da kuma direban motar asibiti daga Dublin wanda ta zauna tare da shi a Paris - da kuma jerin 'yan wasan kwaikwayo, musamman Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankhead da Marlene Dietrich .

A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya, Carstairs ta yi aiki a Faransa tare da ƙungiyar agaji ta Red Cross ta Amurka, tana tuka motocin ɗaukar marasa lafiya.  Bayan yaƙin, ta yi aiki tare da rundunar sojojin Burtaniya ta Royal Army Corps a Faransa, inda ta sake binne waɗanda suka mutu a yaƙin; sannan kuma a Dublin tare da Sashen Sufuri na Mata, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin sufuri ga jami'an Birtaniya a lokacin Yaƙin 'Yancin Kai na Ireland .

Joe Carstairs ya auri wani abokinsa tun yana ƙarami, ɗan attajiri ɗan Faransa mai suna Count Jacques de Pret, a ranar 7 ga Janairun 1918 a birnin Paris. Manufar auren ita ce kawai a ba wa Carstairs damar shiga asusun amanarta ba tare da mahaifiyarta ba. An soke auren nan da nan bayan rasuwar mahaifiyarta bisa dalilin rashin cin komai.  Ta hanyar zaɓen takardu, ta yi watsi da sunan aurenta ta kuma ci gaba da amfani da sunan Carstairs a watan Fabrairun 1922. 

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