Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | AW
frequented popular Bohemian hangouts such as the Café Royal and, later, the Fitzroy Tavern. Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11. 9-10 Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48. 26 |
Leisure and Society | Iris Tree | IT
was a natural bohemian. She smoked, and was one of the first girls to bob her hair (in 1913, cutting off her long plait on a train and leaving it behind on the seat)... |
Friends, Associates | Iris Tree | IT
became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art
. Vanessa Bell
, Duncan Grant
, and Roger Fry
all painted portraits of her, and she wore... |
Textual Production | Iris Tree | IT
began a novel in the 1950s, but she abandoned it after writing 230 pages. In the early 1960s she worked on an autobiography, but this too she left unfinished, partly because she had lost... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dylan Thomas | They had in fact spent the money they had saved for a licence, and borrowed from an old flame of Dylan's. Caitlin, beautiful, strong-willed, and undisciplined, was the youngest of four children from a family... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
Friends, Associates | Flora Annie Steel | FAS
also had a hand in the upbringing of Henry John
, youngest child of painter Augustus John
and his first wife, née Ida Nettleship
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 126 |
Cultural formation | Berta Ruck | Although born in India, a child of the British Raj, she lived in Britain from the age of two. Having an English mother and a Welsh father, she identified mostly with the Welsh side, though... |
Friends, Associates | Berta Ruck | BR
also counted among her friends the flyer Amy Johnson
, the artist Augustus John
, Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson. 129, 193 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jean Rhys | The Crabtree was started by Augustus John
and others for artists, poets, and musicians. It became a popular gathering place for its intended clientele, as well as for journalists, West End actresses and dancers, art... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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