Rare and the Beautiful How the Garman Sisters Captured the Heart of Bohemian London

Name: Rare and the Beautiful How the Garman Sisters Captured the Heart of Bohemian London
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ISBN: 9780060936716

ISBN-10: 0060936711

ISBN-13: 9780060936716

Edition: N/A

Authors: Cressida Connolly

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Like the better-known Mitfords, the Garman sisters took center stage in Bohemian London during the first half of the twentieth century. Beautiful, flamboyant, and headstrong, they broke away from middle-class conventions, seducing and inspiring a generation of artists. Kathleen, an enigmatic artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover and, later, wife of controversial American-born sculptor Jacob Epstein. Mary married the maverick poet Roy Campbell, whose verse attack on the Bloomsbury group following Mary's affair with Vita Sackville-West was the literary scandal of the epoch. Lorna, the youngest and most beautiful of the sisters, was the lover of both the painter Lucian Freud and…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.06" wide x 8.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.616

Cressida Connolly is a journalist and reviewer. She lives in England with her husband and three children.