And Leonard was ‘wearing a green baize apron and a pair of chisels as the Carpenter’. Roger Fry, at the party, had been a wonderfully characterful White Knight. Virginia was dressed as a (‘mad’) March Hare, with a pair of hare’s ears and paws. What Leonard omitted to mention in his reminiscence was that he and Virginia had been to a fancy-dress party for Angelica’s eleventh birthday. He lost his temper, challenged the policeman in front of a small crowd, and made him let the woman go. (This was in 1930.)A drunk woman was being abused by two passers-by and was then accosted by a policeman who seemed to Leonard to be ‘deliberately trying to goad her into doing something which would justify an arrest’. “In Downhill All the Way, Leonard remembers them returning from an evening spent with Vanessa in her studio in Fitzroy Street.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |