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Sarah Watling
In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance
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‘Now, as certainly as never before, we are determined or compelled to take sides.’ Nancy Cunard
In the 1930s, women and men from across Britain, Europe and America made their…
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"An account of ... artists and activists whose determination to live--and to create--with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War"--
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In this intimate, sweeping biography, Sarah Watling brings the sisters in from the margins, tracing lives that span colonial Jamaica, the bucolic life of Victorian progressives, the frantic optimism of…
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‘Interesting women have secrets. They also ought to have sisters.’
From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly ‘wild’…
Independent Historian Sarah Watling
First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape.
