A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen ScottThis is a biography of Kathleen Scott based on her diaries, and Bruce's brother and the Grand Postleniks of Wallachia. In Paris in 1901, she learnt to sculpt with Rodin and made friends with Isadora Duncan - whose illegitimate baby she later delivered - and enagaged in a long and silent flirtation with Edward Steichen and rebuffed Alistair Crowley. |
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One Motherless Daughter Victorian Child | 1 |
Two The Road to Hell | 19 |
Four Babies Are Being Born | 41 |
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