Julian Maclaren-Ross, 1912 – 1964) was a British novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, screenwriter, and literary critic. He is synonymous with the bohemian world of mid-twentieth-century Soho and Fitzrovia.
Julian Maclaren-Ross
Connection: Augustus John
Nina Hamnett
Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) was an artist, illustrator and writer who was associated with the bohemian and avant-garde circles of the London and Parisian art scenes in the first decades of the twentieth century.
T.E. Lawrence’s Clouds Hill
The Lawrence/Elgar connection T.E. Lawrence was introduced to Elgar by his friends George Bernard Shaw and his wife Charlotte in 1932. Lawrence owned ten recordings of his works and although the Second Symphony was his favourite, it was Elgar’s Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61 (Elgar conducting the London Symphony Orchestra) that was on his… Read more »