the Oliver Sisters : Four Lives in seven fragments
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Watling, Sarah
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- studenten, artsen, leraren, pioniers, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly 'wild'. The sisters seemed always to be one step ahead of their time. Margery and Daphne studied at Cambridge when education was still thought by some to be damaging to ovaries. Noel became a doctor: Daphne a pioneering teacher: Margery's promising trajectory was shot down by mental illness: Brynhild, the great beauty of the four, excelled as a Bloomsbury hostess yet gave it up for love and a life of uncertainty.