Grow up Portia: The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen published 1938 This picture is Boredom, 1935 Alexander Deineka – I don’t believe Portia would have worn such a low-cut dress, BUT her elbows feature a surprising amount in the book, and there are several mentions like this one: ‘Portia nursing her elbows as though they had been a couple of loved cats’ I very much enjoyed a recent re-read of Friends and…