Penelope Fitzgerald\'s fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.
Part of a new wave of fashionable female dandies who lived passionate, precario.
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the twentieth century - beloved of Siegfried Sassoon and Walter de la Mare (for whom she was `a very rare being\'), unafraid of Virginia Woolf, and considered by Hardy to be `far and away the best living woman poet\'.
Penelope Fitzgerald\'s fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set