Augustus John

IT was a natural bohemian. She smoked, and was one of the first girls to bob her hair (in 1913, cutting off her long plait on a train and leaving it behind on the seat)...

LCA , who was renowned for her beauty, was painted in her youth by Sir Edward Burne-Jones . She wrote later of his Garden Studio at The Grange in North End Lane, Fulham that its...

DC attended social events dressed in tight bodices and full skirts known as Augustus John clothes (after the models of the painter, who was a former Slade student, current darling of the London art world...

In 1910 the committee was expanded and renamed the Contemporary Art Society. Its members then included the original four founders, plus Clive Bell and Ottoline's brother Henry Bentinck . 44 Bedford Square functioned as the...

During this visit to London, SB met many cultural, political, and social figures, including Wyndham Lewis (who drew a sketch of her), David Garnett , Kingsley Martin , Charles Morgan , Phyllis Bottome ,...

Although NH soon began to long for the liveliness of Paris, finding London night life tiresome, she quickly formed a close relationship with the local pub. She and her artist friend Augustus John adopted this...

The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor...

Once again, Kennedy uses a tragic love story to criticise the strict social conventions of Victorian England and to dramatise the conflict between art and society. This novel, again set in 1914, opens with...

The novel opens arrestingly as the child Gwen and her siblings struggle back into their house from a walk in wild and stormy weather. Gwen's later-famous brother is called Gus, not Augustus , to forestall...

This short novel, with a large cast centred on a district in South London, vibrates with the tension between satire and sympathy. The title is ironic: the protagonist, Lyris Crane, is a painter too...

IT began a novel in the 1950s, but she abandoned it after writing 230 pages. In the early 1960s she worked on an autobiography, but this too she left unfinished, partly because she had lost...