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Noble savages : the Olivier sisters, four lives in seven fragments
Watling, Sarah2019
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The Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly 'wild'. Rupert Brooke was said to be in love with all four of them; D. H. Lawrence thought they were frankly 'wrong'; Virginia Woolf found them curiously difficult to read. 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.
Main title:
Noble savages : the Olivier sisters, four lives in seven fragments / Sarah Watling.
Author:
Watling, Sarah, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2019.
Collation:
390 p. : ill. ports. ; 24 cm
Notes:
Bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781787330191 (hbk)1787330192 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.0820922
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
23643