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Timeline Event » 1916 – Serafina Astafieva opens her school in London

Born in St Petersburg in 1876, Serafina Astafieva became an important teacher in London in the early years of the 20th century. She ran a school on the King’s Road in Chelsea. Her pupils...

Grace Note » 1930s: Art and Literature in Britain in the 1930s

Artists in Britain in the early and mid 20th Century were influenced by contemporary developments in Europe. However, they also looked back to a quintessentially native? Romanticism. There is no...

Grace Note » 1920s – 1950s: Neo-Romanticism and After

According to Virginia Woolf, ‘on or about December 1910 human character changed’. The event from 1910 she was referring to was the famous exhibition entitled ‘Manet and the...

Grace Note » 1920s: T. S. Eliot and Modernism: Of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot and Modernism (with some reference to the Ballets Russes).

T S Eliot was a, if not the, major figure in English literature for much of the 20th Century. Is his attempt to reconcile modern modes of expression with ancient traditions reflected in British...