Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century was engaged in a grand experiment. The Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, broke and hungry but they were rebels.
I have to admit I made up my mind to get the book Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 as soon as I read the above description. What I did find out upon some further reading was that author, Virginia Nicholson, is the granddaughter of Vanessa Bell and great-niece of Virginia Woolf. And one of the bohemians whose lives she recorded is, of course, that of her great-aunt's herself!
After having the Laura Ashley biography in my shopping cart for the longest time, I determined to get it after flipping through it at a brick-&-mortar bookstore recently and swooning at the pictures (like the one above I took from Google books!)
Sometimes, I truly wish I was born in England in the early 20th Century. Failing which, I'm glad there are books like these I can lose myself in.