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was also the exemplary subject for painters and photographers—Nina Hamnett
(who did a drawing of her for ten guineas at the request of Lady Cunard
),
Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc.
In spite of the clamour and outrage (or perhaps in part because of it), the novel was, as Cecil Beaton
remembered in his introduction to the 1974 re-issue, an overnight sensation, selling fast around the...
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. http://www.jssgallery.org/.
under Elinor Glyn
Travel
Nina Hamnett
NH
's friendship with a London School of Art
student who was probably Paula Gellibrand
(1890?-1964) brought her an invitation to spend two months in Russia over the summer.