D. H. Lawrence: In His Own Words...
“Let us face anything, do anything, put up with anything.”
Beyond Bloomsbury
An ongoing anthology celebrating the lives and work of historical artists and writers.
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A. A. Milne: In Which We Are Introduced
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
💬 If you could live in a painting for a day...
Which would you choose?
Flower Portraits: Beauty in Nature
"Flowers really do intoxicate me."
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Stand By Me
"I have felt what it is to be famous."
💬 Introducing Conversations
A welcoming space for curious minds.
Vita Sackville-West: Love & Friendship
“She walks among the loveliness she made.”
Henri Matisse: A Chronology of Colour
"I use colour as a means of expressing my emotion."
E. M. Forster: Life Before Bloomsbury
“But when I die and they write my life they can say everything.”
Arthur Conan Doyle: How Watson Learned the Trick
"I had no idea, Watson, that you were so apt a pupil."
Lytton Strachey: Life Before Bloomsbury
“It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.”
John Northcote Nash: The Art of Seeing
"The artist's main business is to train his eye to see."
Augustus Edwin John: King of Bohemia
"The age of Augustus John was dawning."
Virginia & Vita: In Their Own Words...
"I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night."
D. H. Lawrence: Before Lady Chatterley's Lover
"What will the others say? That I'm a fool. A collier's son, a poet!"
E. M. Forster: Aspects of Austen
"I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen."
John Everett Millais: A Victorian Master
"A painter... should hold up the mirror to his own times."
May Sinclair: Lena Wrace
"...it was preposterous that she should waste so much good passion."
Dod Procter: The Golden Girl
"...an artist in the all-too-rare and fullest sense."
Agatha Christie: A is for Ashfield...
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”
James Joyce: The Dead
"Christmas-time! Christmas-time!"
Step into Christmas: A Celebration of Colour
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."