Lover, muse, artist
Aug 26, 2021
3 minutes
Hugh St Clair
THE LIFE OF ISABEL RAWSTHORNE (1912-1992) reads a little bit like romantic fiction; a girl from a humble background sets out on an adventure and meets a cast of fascinating and influential characters with whom she has dalliances and a few marriages. However, unlike Amber St. Clare in Forever Amber or ’s Becky Sharp, whose chosen fields of operation were the aristocracy and the army, Rawsthorne found herself amongst some of the twentieth century’s greatest artists.
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