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Grace Higgens |
6 February 2008 |
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 Housekeeper to the Bloomsbury set
Grace Higgens joined the bohemian household of the artist Vanessa Bell as a young maid in 1920. For the next fifty years she ran Charleston, a country haven for Vanessa and her partner Duncan Grant's circle of unconventional and talented friends. Grace often sat for the painters who came to the house, and her diaries reveal a vivid and affectionate picture of the lives of the Bloomsbury set as seen from ‘below stairs'. Jenni is joined by Sally Brown, curator of the Bloomsbury Below Stairs exhibition at the British Library.
Bloomsbury Below Stairs - Grace Higgens at Charleston 1920-1970 is on at The British Library until 20 AprilThe British Library
Charleston House and GardenDisclaimer
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