EJ's novel Love Affair had begun life as a pre-war plan for an operetta, based on an idea of her brother Bertie
's which was taken from two Manet
paintings, including the famous Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986.
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Michael Field
They visited Paul Durand-Ruel
's gallery to marvel at works by Monet
, Manet
, and Degas
. (They also spotted George Moore
walking through the gallery.)
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933.
