The Christmas List:
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson
This is the early 20th century version of Janice Dickinson’s book! All about crazy bohemians but perhaps with a little more style and intelligence (sorry Janice). The granddaughter of painter Vanessa Bell and great-niece of Virginia Woolf writes about the experimental lifestyle of her grandparents’ generation. Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant, they all experimented and refashioned not just their art, but their daily lives. From Roy Campbell’s recipe for bouillabaisse to Iris Tree cutting off her braid and leaving it behind on a train, creativity entered every aspect of these people’s lives. Bohemians ate garlic and didn’t always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshipped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Postimpres-sionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Janice looks tame in comparison…!
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