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An ongoing anthology of historical artist and writer biographies and curated gallery and library collections.
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Agatha Christie: A is for Ashfield...
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”
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Shakespeare & Hathaway: The Second Best Bed
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
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James Joyce: The Dead
"Christmas-time! Christmas-time!"
Dec 28, 2025
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Step into Christmas: A Celebration of Colour
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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Eric Ravilious: About A Boy
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Laura Knight: A Singular Vision
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Virginia Woolf: A Home of One's Own
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Vanessa Bell: Life Before Bloomsbury
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Winter Wonderland: Let it Snow!
"...how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person."
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Katherine Mansfield: A Fairy Tale
"One night in the middle of Winter..."
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Beyond the Borders: Painting Scotland
"My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go."
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Gwen John: An Interior Life
"Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality."
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Beatrix Potter: The Tale of A Lady in the Lakes
"As nearly perfect a little place as I ever lived in."
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Virginia Woolf: A Haunted House
"Wandering through the house... the ghostly couple seek their joy."
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Cedric Lockwood Morris: A Colourful Life
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Daphne du Maurier: The Years Before
"I long for something so terribly and I don’t know what it is."
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D. H. Lawrence: Before Lady Chatterley's Lover
"What will the others say? That I'm a fool. A collier's son, a poet!"
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The Bloomsbury Group: Living in Squares
"One had glimpses of something miraculous happening high up in the air."
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Step into Christmas: A Celebration of Colour
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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Winter Wonderland: Let it Snow!
"...how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person."
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Victoria K. Walker
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Beyond the Borders: Painting Scotland
"My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go."
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Victoria K. Walker
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Gwen John: An Interior Life
"Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality."
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John Everett Millais: A Victorian Master
"A painter... should hold up the mirror to his own times."
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Architectural Portraits: Around the Houses...
"I want a house that has got over all its troubles."
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The Bloomsbury Artists: Painting in Circles
"Art is the visible expression of man's soul."
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Christopher Wood: Agony and Ecstasy
"I want to paint everything which touches the human being."
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James Joyce: The Dead
"Christmas-time! Christmas-time!"
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Katherine Mansfield: A Fairy Tale
"One night in the middle of Winter..."
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Victoria K. Walker
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Virginia Woolf: A Haunted House
"Wandering through the house... the ghostly couple seek their joy."
Oct 28, 2025
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Victoria K. Walker
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D. H. Lawrence: Song-Day in Autumn
"When from the autumn roses trickles the dew..."
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Katherine Mansfield: Her First Ball
"Was this first ball only the beginning of her last ball, after all?"
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Arthur Quiller-Couch: The Outlandish Ladies
"... in July, when the monkey-flower was out, and the marsh aflame with it."
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Katherine Mansfield: The Lady's Maid
"Can I tuck in your feet? I always tuck in my lady’s feet."
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Saki: Excepting Mrs. Pentherby
"What can one do with a woman like that?"
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