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Stella Bowen, babysitters, male genius, and domestic bliss
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Stella Bowen, babysitters, male genius, and domestic bliss

“Even in the face of art, especially in the face of art, life must go on.” —Drusilla Modjeska

Jun 20, 2021
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Originally published in 1941, Stella Bowen’s memoir Drawn from Life, is the most expensive used book I’ve ever bought—a $33 Virago paperback printed in 1984 and shipped to me from an antiquarian bookshop in rural Georgia. I perseverated on the purchase. Perhaps I could read about Stella’s life and her appearances in literature. To Ezra Pound she was a “…

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