Mark Gertler

This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...

LOM began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925. She showed drafts to Mark Gertler , Siegfried Sassoon , Walter Turner , and Virginia Woolf ...

The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor...

In 1910 the committee was expanded and renamed the Contemporary Art Society. Its members then included the original four founders, plus Clive Bell and Ottoline's brother Henry Bentinck . 44 Bedford Square functioned as the...

Mark Gertler 's painting of her, Girl in a Blue Jersey, 1912, makes her severe rather than charming.

Carrington enjoyed D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, but wrote to Gertler in early 1915 that Mr Lawrence I admit tries me sorely.

On her return to London, EA found that her husband's smear campaign had effectively alienated her from her established social set. She responded by cultivating a friendship with a younger man, Alexander Stuart Frere-Reeves

One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...

At this time she began to meet people connected with the modernist movement, like Carrington and Mark Gertler . She met and sat for the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , and she also met the painter...

Brett moved in various distinct social circles. Augustus John was an admired acquaintance. Virginia Woolf , a friend, nevertheless commented in 1921 on Brett being one of the entourage of Lady Ottoline Morrell , and...

After this VW saw Ottoline Morrell many times at Garsington and at Ottoline's other salons, where guests included W. B. Yeats , Aldous Huxley , Mark Gertler , and Dorothy Brett , among many others...

DC met D. H. Lawrence , Frieda Lawrence , and David Garnett at the home of another writer, Gilbert Cannan : Cholesbury Manor House in Cholesbury, where she was a guest with Mark Gertler .

Introduced by Mark Gertler , DC became a frequent visitor of Ottoline Morrell at her Garsington home (which Carrington privately referred to as Shandygaff Hall).

Carrington was reimagined (often disturbingly) by a number of her literary contemporaries. Gilbert Cannan , whom she met through Mark Gertler , dedicated to her a novel, Mendel, published in October 1916, in which...

The two met at the Slade and their relationship was for Carrington mainly concerned with painting. But Gertler fell in love with her, like his friend Christopher Nevinson , who first introduced...