Judith Mackrell
Autor(a) de Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
About the Author
Judith Mackrell is a celebrated dance critic, writing first for The Independent and now for The Guardian. Her biography of the Russian Ballerina Lydia Lopokova, Bloomsbury Ballerina, was short-listed for the Costa Biography Award. She has also appeared on television and radio, and is the coauthor mostrar mais of The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. She lives in London with her family. mostrar menos
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Obras por Judith Mackrell
Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes (2008) 46 exemplares
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Mackrill, Judith Rosalind
- Outros nomes
- Henson, Mrs S.P.
- Data de nascimento
- 1954-10-26
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Sutton High School
University of York (BA)
Oxford University (D.Phil.) - Ocupações
- journalist
writer - Organizações
- The Guardian
The Independent
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Críticas
Listas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 582
- Popularidade
- #43,090
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 12
- ISBN
- 43
- Línguas
- 2
Quite an interesting trio. Casati came from an extremely wealthy family, married a marquess from whom she later separated, and was known for taking her pet cheetah along in her gondola. Her life was her art.
Doris Castlerosse came from a middle-class family, but was determined to become rich and social. Her path to that was to become a "professional mistress", though she later made a rather unfortunate marriage. She had quite the variety of lovers, including Cecil Beaton (!!!) and Winston Churchill. But it was a woman who bought the palazzo for her. She lived there only briefly, however, leaving Venice with the onset of World War II, and never returning.
Peggy Guggenheim had a difficult childhood, not helped by her father's death in the sinking of the Titanic, and, like the others, had lousy taste in men. She became, of course, a great patron of modern art, and the palazzo is now the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Her ashes (and her dogs) are buried in the garden.… (mais)