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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">See this link to an excerpt from the upcoming book,
<i><span style="font-style:italic">Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham</span></i>. Henrietta and her close friend and (for a time ) lover, Mina Kirstein, spent several years in the early 1920s in the
<st1:place w:st="on">Bloomsbury</st1:place> circle. She was sculpted by Stephen Tomlin, sketched by Dora Carrington, and painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. David Garnett dedicated his novel,
<i><span style="font-style:italic">Man in the Zoo</span></i> to the two Americans. The excerpt details a memorable night at Grant and
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bell</st1:place></st1:City>’s studio. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><a href="http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/05/26/author-explores-a-complicated-arresting-figure-in-new-book-her-famous-aunt/">http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/05/26/author-explores-a-complicated-arresting-figure-in-new-book-her-famous-aunt/</a>
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