Iris Bland

EN published another novel that draws on judiciously altered material from her own life: The Red House, dedicated to Helen Macklin , with a frontispiece portrait of the author's daughter Iris .

BR studied art first at Lambeth School of Art, then, on a London County Council scholarship, at the Slade School of Art in London, where she was taught by Henry Tonks . She then...

BR developed a close personal friendship with the writer E. Nesbit (mother of her art-student friend Iris Bland ). They vacationed together at Grez-sur-Marne in France, and Nesbit stayed for a week with Ruck's...