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The Rare and the Beautiful - The Lives of the Garmans (Paperback)
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The Rare and the Beautiful - The Lives of the Garmans (Paperback)
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List price R369
Loot Price R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
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The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters
and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived. Each of the
seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild.
Born around the turn of the nineteenth century, most of the
siblings were to become involved in the radical literary and
political circles of British life between the First and Second
World Wars. Their morals were unconventional: bisexuality,
unfaithfulness and illegitimate children were a matter of course.
Nevertheless they were high-minded and intensely loyal. They were
the last muses: women who were prepared to sideline their own
talent, friendships, material comforts - even their own children -
in order to beguile and inspire the men they loved. Cressida
Connolly's family biography delves into the lives of three of the
sisters in intense and revealing detail. Kathleen Garman, the
father's favourite, ran away to London to study music. She was
spotted by the American sculptor Jacob Epstein, who promptly fell
in love with her, and remained his muse until his death. They had
three children, she was shot in the shoulder by his first wife and
she finally became Lady Epstein in 1955. Mary Garman came to London
with Kathleen and studied art at the Slade. She married poet Roy
Campbell, who was to become the scourge of the literary
establishment by espousing General Franco's side during the Spanish
Civil War. Finally there was Lorna Garman, the youngest and most
beautiful of all the family. At sixteen she married the wealthy
Ernest Wishart, a landowner, communist and founder of the socialist
publishing house Laurence & Wishart, who spent most of his life
turning a blind eye to his wife's infidelities. Lorna was the love
of Laurie Lee's life and they had a daughter. Lucian Freud painted
several pictures for her. Through Cressida Connolly's skilfull
retelling of these remarkable lives, we get an intimate portrait of
a golden age of romance, passion and art that is an original,
beguiling read.
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