Anne Chisholm

Born to be wild

The Olivier girls’ summer camps and naked bathing may not have appealed to Woolf or Strachey — but Rupert Brooke and Bunny Garnett were enraptured

  • Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters

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    Cape, pp. 416

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