Dame Edith was a well-known avant garde poet back in the early 20th century. She was born into high society, and hosted literary salons with the likes of Aldous Huxley and Wilfred Owen. She also had a very long, thin, striking nose that her father had tried to improve by making her wear a nose-truss - an old-fashioned apparatus designed to ‘correct nasal deformities’ - as a teenager to improve her profile.

I learnt about her recently after meeting her great-nephew William, a writer. He took one look at my nose, and told me to look up his great-aunt. I was expecting a dowdy woman with a large nose. Instead I found dozens of images of a beautiful, strong woman with the most unusual nose I’ve ever seen, dressed in elaborate turbans and head-gear. In most photos, she was posing side-profile.

It was amazing. It’s taken me 28 years to embrace my nose in the 21st century where Instagram is full of #bodypositivity with people loving their flaws. But Dame Edith did it in the 20th century when no one else was - and she did it in the most striking, eccentric way.

Even now I’ve learnt to love my side profile, I still avoid ‘out there’ clothes like turbans, because I still think they’re made for women with delicate profiles like Audrey Hepburn. Dame Edith reminds me that even if your profile draws attention, you don’t have to hide away - you can add to it. The more outlandish, the better.

“These big-nosed women helped me love the way I look”