John Middleton Murry

Whilst studying at the Slade, Brett was pursued by her instructor Frederick Brown (co-founder of the New English Art Club ). After her graduation she brought Brown along to the Roman Camp to meet her...

After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take...

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...

The relationship between DB and Katherine Mansfield appears to have been one of mutual support, each engaging deeply with the other's work. Brett credits Mansfield with the beginning of her artistic career, She gave me...

Despite the women's close rapport, Brett harboured a deep attraction to Murry , of which he was well aware. Hignett suggests that the two began a liaison sometime in the winter of 1920, five years...

John Middleton Murry was supposed to accompany them, but in the event did not, and the idea of the community quickly evaporated. They first stayed in Taos with Mabel Dodge Luhan , who then conveyed...

A crucial entry from the Mansfield diary reads Dearest Tig, For the first time in my life I slept with a man and that man was yours = I found you on the stairs—quite early...

With Dolly Tylden , EB occupied a three-bedroom flat and lived in what she recognized as mock poverty. In Chelsea she socialised with other artists, including Henri Gaudier (who sculpted a bust of...