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Letters to Gwen John, by Celia Paul

I bought this at the Gwen John exhibition in Cardiff, intrigued that an artist was writing to a dead artist about their lives. I had not heard of Celia Paul before (I’m not a great follower of modern art), and I’d disliked Margaret Forster’s novel about Gwen John’s life, so I wanted to try a different way of finding out more about her. Well. I know a LOT more about Celia Paul’s life now, to my great advantage. Her letters to Gwen are interspersed with biographical and […]

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