PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Martin Ferguson Smith, OBE, MA, MLitt, LittD, FSA, FRGS, FRHistS is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Durham University. His books include Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulay’s Letters to a Cousin (2011, 2017) and In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists (2021, 2023). As a classicist he is best known for his work on Lucretius and his discovery of thousands of words of the philosophical inscription set up by the Epicurean Diogenes at Oinoanda in southern Turkey around AD 130. He lives in contented isolation on the island of Foula in Shetland.
"""In this patient, long-in-the-making biography, Martin Ferguson Smith aims to give Coombe back her identity, not only as an artist of considerable achievement, but also as a woman with a distinct emotional and social trajectory. . .""-- ""The Times Literary Supplement"" ""Little of [Coombe's] work survives, but illustrations here give flashes of her brilliance.""-- ""Royal Academy Magazine"" ""How thrilled students of art and literature, as well as aficionados of all matters Bloomsbury, should be. . . Brilliantly illuminating and deeply moving, The Artist Helen Coombe is a biographical treasure.""-- ""English Studies"""
