Soledad Rendón Bueno was born in Seville, the capital of Andalusia, a region on the southern coast of Spain, on 9th July 1943. The eldest of six children, her Portuguese father and Spanish mother of Triana[…]
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Category: Spain
Dreaming On The Verge Of Strife: Julian Bell And Rupert Brooke
A young Apollo, golden-haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life. – Frances Darwin Cornford Written after her first meeting with the poet, Frances Cornford’s pithy verse,[…]
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Butterfly Lovers: Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua
Having failed to achieve his desired career as a poet and writer, as well as two unsuccessful attempts to gain a King’s Fellowship, Julian Bell sought employment and adventure in the Far East, accepting a[…]
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