Odle illustrated editions of Voltaire
's Candide, Swift
's Gulliver's Travels, Wilde
's The Sphinx, and Twain
's 1601, among others; his images also appeared in such periodicals as The Gypsy...
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, 1971, 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, 1984, pp. 1-48.
26
According to her friend David Garnett
, she preferred the hard-up to the well-off, the doomed and...
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)...
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...
Publishing
Iris Tree
A photograph of the Head of Iris Tree, by Jacob Epstein
, appears as the frontispiece of the volume. IT
wrote all of these poems between 1912 and 1919, most of them in the...
Textual Features
Nina Hamnett
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...
Timeline
2 July 1914: The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited...
Building item
2 July 1914
The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis
, formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.
Wees, William C. Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde. University of Toronto Press, 1972.
19, 162-79, 213-27
1953: Sculptor Jacob Epstein created Madonna and...
Building item
1953
Sculptor Jacob Epstein
created Madonna and Child for the Convent of the Holy Child
, at Cavendish Square in London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
406
1957: Sculptor Jacob Epstein completed the sculpture...
Building item
1957
Sculptor Jacob Epstein
completed the sculpture Christ in Majesty for Llandaff Cathedral.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.