The Good Bohemian : The Letters of Ida John

ISBN-13: 9781408873632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str.

Holroyd, Michael|||John, Rebecca

Opis

Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John's first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists of the last century.

Recenzje

It is a terrible ending to a terrible story. You might say that it was all Ida's fault. She was just a silly goose who mistook her grander for a phoenix. But that would not be true to the brave, witty, imaginative, sensitive, playful, talented woman who wrote these letters. It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say John Carey Sunday Times

O autorze

Rebecca John is an artist and granddaughter of Augustus and Ida John. She lives in London.

Michael Holroyd is one of our leading biographers. He has written the Lives of Lytton Strachey, Bernard Shaw and Augustus John, as well as a group biography of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their families. He was awarded a knighthood in 2007 for services to literature. He lives in London.