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Judith Mackrell

London

Dance Critic at The Guardian

Dance writer + author: Bloomsbury Ballerina, Flappers, Unfinished Palazzo, Going With The Boys/Correspondents. Now working on double bio of Gwen & Augustus John

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  • 4 days ago | msn.com | Judith Mackrell

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  • 4 days ago | theguardian.com | Judith Mackrell

    When I began researching the lives of Gwen and Augustus John, the image I held in my mind was of the two of them, as very small siblings, sketching together on the coast around Tenby. For both to have escaped the narrowness of their modest provincial home, and established themselves at the heart of early 20th-century art, was a remarkable journey – and I was intrigued by what possible forces of temperament and upbringing might have driven them.

  • 5 days ago | literaryreview.co.uk | Judith Mackrell

    As Dorothy Rowe’s classic study My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend explains, sibling relationships – invariably intense, often fraught – are among the most underexamined of familial connections. Although every sibling strives to create a unique place in the world, inescapably their longest relationships will be with loved, ignored or actively disliked brothers and sisters. Gifted siblings with intertwined lives present a fascinating challenge for the biographer.

  • Sep 11, 2024 | theguardian.com | Judith Mackrell

    In August 1944, the photographer and war journalist Lee Miller was sent to France to report on conditions in the newly liberated port city of Saint-Malo in Brittany. But, as it rapidly became clear, some intelligence wires had got crossed. Far from being liberated, much of Saint-Malo was still a violent war zone, with US soldiers under heavy fire as they battled to dislodge the occupying Germans.

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