Edgar de Bergen
, or Roald Kristian, was arrested in 1917 under the Aliens' Act, for failing to register as a foreigner in war time. Having ignored a warning to report to the authorities, he...
Family and Intimate relationships
Nina Hamnett
NH
and Edgar de Bergen
(that is, actually Roald Kristian) were married at the Brentford Register Office.
Hooker, Denise. Nina Hamnett: queen of bohemia. Constable and Company Limited, 1986.
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Booth-Clibborn, Edward, and Nina Hamnett. “Introduction”. Laughing Torso, Virago, 1984, p. v - x.
ix
Family and Intimate relationships
Nina Hamnett
That summer, 1914, NH
had met a mysterious Norwegian artist whom in her memoirs she calls Edgar de Bergen
. He declined to tell her his last name or nationality; her nephew says his real...
Leisure and Society
Nina Hamnett
Sickert
painted her in 1915 or 1916, sitting smoking with Roald Kristian
, in a work entitled The Little Tea Party.
Bell, Julian, b. 1952. “So South Kensington”. London Review of Books, No. 18, 20 Sept. 2001, pp. 27-9.
27
politics
Nina Hamnett
One evening in late July 1914, NHwas suddenly seized with an indescribable feeling of horror. She writes that she thought it a premonition that something terrible was going to happen in her personal life...