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Young Rebel: The Exploits Of Soledad Miranda

18/08/201518/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1960s

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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Dreaming On The Verge Of Strife: Julian Bell And Rupert Brooke

04/02/201402/08/2017 Dr Caroline Potter1930s

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

08/04/201302/08/2017 Dr Caroline Potter1930s

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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This site takes its name from Virginia Woolf's 1939 memoir. As an historian of the 20th Century, and of the Bloomsbury Group, I hope it not only says what happened, but also, ‘what the person was like to whom it happened.’

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