Hooker, Denise. Nina Hamnett: queen of bohemia. Constable and Company Limited, 1986.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | The final stage in EBO
's education came when she enrolled as an art student at the West London School of Art
(a branch of the more famous South Kensington School of Art
) and... |
| Education | Kate Greenaway | From an early age, KG
showed artistic promise, and her father encouraged her artistic inclinations. At the age of twelve, she began taking classes at Finsbury School of Art
, and she studied there for... |
| Education | Nina Hamnett | NH
was a student at the London School of Art
(then known as Brangwyn's after its most popular professor, Frank Brangwyn
). |
| Education | Nina Hamnett | NH
, deadly serious and determined to get on (whereas most of the girls there were marking time until marriage), studied under an old Scotsman who painted curious pictures of Highlanders and romantic scenes at... |
| Education | Nina Hamnett | When she resumed classes at the London School of Art
after her summer in Russia in 1909, NH
had to take on the additional role of massiere (managing the models in the absence of the... |
| Education | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
also studied drawing with Mrs Fanny McIan
at the Government School of Design
in Somerset House. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 5 |
| Education | Augusta Webster | Suffragist historian Ray Strachey
relates that AW
jeopardized the prospects of women students at the South Kensington Art School
when she was expelled for whistling. Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago, 1978. 96 Webster, Augusta. “Introduction”. Portraits and Other Poems, edited by Christine Sutphin, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37. 10 |
| Education | Una Troubridge | Margot Taylor (later UT
) held a scholarship which she won at the age of thirteen to the Royal College of Art
in London. Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985. 25-6 Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 113 Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1985. 63-4 |
| Employer | Ann Quin | On leaving school at seventeen, AQ
took a position as an assistant stage manager for a theatre company. She made coffee, sewed, scrubbed, and shifted scenery. After six weeks she had a row with the... |
| Employer | Iris Murdoch | Having left St Anne's
with the idea of securing more time for her writing, IM
was a part-time lecturer in philosophy at the Royal College of Art
in London. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 469 and n4 Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, 21 Feb. 1999, p. 24. 24 Todd, Richard. Iris Murdoch. Methuen, 1984. 18 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Freya Stark | FS
's father, Robert Stark
, had left his family at Torquay in Devon to study art in Rome and was on a visit to his uncle's home near Florence, when he met his first... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Hamnett | NH
had her first romantic relationship at the London School of Art
, with another student known among her circle as The Genius. He specialized in painting souls in torture. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. 26 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Horovitz | They had met in 1960 when Frances joined a group of Blake
admirers involved with Michael's radical magazine, New Departures, which he had founded in 1959 and which he published and edited. New Departures |
| Friends, Associates | Iris Murdoch | IM
regularly extended the hand of friendship to people in trouble. As a single example, JoŽe
and Marija Jančar
, Catholic Slovenes whom she met as displaced persons in Austria, turned to her for help... |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Quin | Working at the Royal College of Art
brought AQ
into close proximity with pop art creators like David Hockney
and Pauline Boty
. Quin, Ann. “Introduction”. The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments, edited by Jennifer Hodgson, And Other Stories, 2018, pp. 7-12. 7 |
Timeline
1837: The Government School of Design was established...
Building item
1837
The Government School of Design
was established in London.
Callen, Anthea. Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. Astragal Books, 1980.
27
1853: The Government School of Design (founded...
Building item
1853
The Government School of Design
(founded in 1837) moved to South Kensington, where it became the greatly expanded National Art Training School
.
“History and Location”. Royal College of Art.
May 1885: John Callcott Horsley, Rector of the Royal...
Building item
May 1885
John Callcott Horsley
, Rector of the Royal Academy
, first stated his objection to the use of nude female models in a letter to The Times which he signed a British Matron.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
60-61
1896: The National Art Training School in South...
Building item
1896
The National Art Training School
in South Kensington (its site since 1853) became the Royal College of Art
, with a focus on art and design practice.
“History and Location”. Royal College of Art.
1900: Gertrude Jekyll published her influential,...
Building item
1900
Gertrude Jekyll
published her influential, highly personal Home and Garden, which describes the creation of her famous cottage garden at Munstead Wood in Surrey.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1948: The fashion program at the Royal College...
Building item
1948
The fashion program at the Royal College of Art
(in London) was founded .
Laver, James, and Christina Probert. Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. Thames and Hudson, 1982.
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