the art, loves, and lives of the Garman sisters
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Connolly, Cressida
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5873 - B
- Thesaurus
- zussen, relaties, kunstenaressen -v, 20e eeuw, Verenigd Koninkrijk, biografie
- Description
- Connolly descibes the life of the Garman sisters, whose lives described a glittering arc through London's High Bohemia between the two world wars: One had an affair with Vita Sackville-West: another was the longtime lover and, later, the wife of the sculptor Jacob Epstein: still another was the lover of the poet Laurie Lee and the painter Lucian Freud. In fact there were nine Garman siblings, two brothers and seven sisters. Children of a prosperous churchgoing Midlands doctor, they had an idyllic childhood full of picnics and make-believe interspersed with lessons and piano practice: but very early their rebellious streak revealed itself. Mary and Kathleen, the eldest sisters, pilfered knickknacks from the drawing room and made their younger siblings take them to town to sell: with the proceeds they bought cigarettes and French novels and modish accessories, and took their young accomplices to the movies. When they were old enough to set tongues wagging by ordering drinks in the local miners' pub, they ran away to London where such behavior would be more tolerated.