Augustus John

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. This novel, again set in 1914, opens with...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ,...

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...

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...

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...