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...She attended art school in the early 1920s, first at Leon Underwood’s school in Brook Green before moving on to the Slade School of Art. All the while she expanded her creative social circle....
...Gertrude Stein is an example. “She was one of the founders of the modernist movement and yet books by James Joyce, who she encouraged, are hugely expensive – Ulysses is £80,000....
...This whopping, raw cow’s-milk cheese, made by Small Brook Farm in Vermont, owes a big debt to European mountain cheeses such as Beaufort....
...Ophelia drowns in a brook, but quite how, where and why is mysterious. Is it suicide, accident or murder? Is she mad? Is she pregnant?...
...I’m not interested in Volumnia or Gertrude.” (Pity, since she would be a spellbinding Gertrude, trapped by erotic bonds to the murdering usurper.)...
...His wife, the historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, was a leading light, advocating a return to Victorian values; his son, William, co-founded The Weekly Standard, its modern parish magazine, and is a ubiquitous...
...When Rosamund Wallinger bought Upton Grey the seller’s agent mentioned nothing about the Gertrude Jekyll connection....
...He was drawn back to the Bard by an epiphanic experience of Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at Stratford in midsummer 1970....
...Brook Mason is chief correspondent ofArt Antiques....
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