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Duchess of Cork Street
Lillian Browse
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Description for Duchess of Cork Street
Paperback. The autobiography of Lillian Browse, this volume begins with her origins in South Africa and reveals how she managed by charm, determination and good judgment to establish herself as a doyenne of the London art world between the 1950s and 1970s. Num Pages: 224 pages, 41 b&w line illustrations. BIC Classification: ABQ; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 510.
Duchess of Cork Street is the autobiography of a remarkable woman who, educated in the culturally unsophisticated milieu of South Africa, managed by charm, determination and good judgment to establish herself as a doyenne of the London art world between about 1950 and the late 1970s. Although Lillian Browse had originally had ambitions to become a ballet-dancer, she joined the staff of the well known Leger Gallery in the early 1930s, and in 1945 she set up a new art gallery called Roland, Browse and Delbanco in Cork Street in the west end of London together with two fellow art ... Read more
Duchess of Cork Street is the autobiography of a remarkable woman who, educated in the culturally unsophisticated milieu of South Africa, managed by charm, determination and good judgment to establish herself as a doyenne of the London art world between about 1950 and the late 1970s. Although Lillian Browse had originally had ambitions to become a ballet-dancer, she joined the staff of the well known Leger Gallery in the early 1930s, and in 1945 she set up a new art gallery called Roland, Browse and Delbanco in Cork Street in the west end of London together with two fellow art ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900357142
SKU
V9781900357142
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Ref
99-48
About Lillian Browse
Lillian Browse was brought up in South Africa, and she returned to England in the mid 1920s to study ballet with Margaret Craske, joining the Dolin-Nemtchimova Ballet Company in 1930. She became ballet critic to the Spectator for four years in the early 1950s. She worked at the Leger Gallery from 1931 to 1939; then, during the war, she organized ... Read more
Reviews for Duchess of Cork Street
'...an absorbing story, told with zest and great candour, so that it is entirely fitting that Browse's name should still adorn the facade of No.19 [Cork Street].' Evelyn Joll in The Spectator