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13 September 2021

There is a new book which we sell in the shop called This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell. Tragically, it has no colour reproductions; it has this beautiful Carrington still life (Tulips in a Staffordshire Jug) on the cover but then pale almost unsee-able tiny black and white photographs. We shall remedy this on the Persephone Post this week. Because the book is good, it has just been very ill-served by its publisher.

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