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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Valentine Ackland | After she left her husband, VA
spent a good deal of time at Chaldon in Dorset. There, she was able to write and join a supportive community of artistic friends, including Theodore Powys
and... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
, who was renowned for her beauty, was painted in her youth by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
. She wrote later of his Garden Studio at The Grange in North End Lane, Fulham that its... |
Textual Features | Pat Barker | 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... |
Residence | Stella Benson | During this visit to London, SB
met many cultural, political, and social figures, including Wyndham Lewis
(who drew a sketch of her), David Garnett
, Kingsley Martin
, Charles Morgan
, Phyllis Bottome
,... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Dora Carrington | DC
attended social events dressed in tight bodices and full skirts known as Augustus John clothes (after the models of the painter, who was a former Slade student, current darling of the London art world... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John
(wife of Augustus John
, and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann
, and Julia Strachey |
Textual Features | Margaret Forster | The novel opens arrestingly as the child Gwen and her siblings struggle back into their house from a walk in wild and stormy weather. Gwen's later-famous brother is called Gus, not Augustus
, to forestall... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | NH
met and became a friend of Augustus John
, the bohemian artist par excellence, at the Café Royal, the popular artist haunt in Regent Street. Hooker, Denise. Nina Hamnett: queen of bohemia. Constable and Company Limited. 40 |
Residence | Nina Hamnett | Although NH
soon began to long for the liveliness of Paris, finding London night life tiresome, she quickly formed a close relationship with the local pub. She and her artist friend Augustus John
adopted this... |
Textual Features | Margaret Kennedy | Once again, Kennedy uses a tragic love story to criticise the strict social conventions of Victorian England and to dramatise the conflict between art and society. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson
. Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon
, W. H. Auden
, Christopher Isherwood |
Textual Features | Shena Mackay | This short novel, with a large cast centred on a district in South London, vibrates with the tension between satire and sympathy. The title is ironic: the protagonist, Lyris Crane, is a painter too... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
met the painter Augustus John
, who asked her to sit for him; they had an intense affair of short duration. Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. 63-8 |
Occupation | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 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... |
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