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Before & After Great Bardfield

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Title Credits 00:18
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Introduction 01:50
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Chapter 1 - My Childhood 09:00
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Chapter 2 - My Family 04:04
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Chapter 3 - Growing Up 09:46
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Chapter 4 - Swimming 09:56
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Chapter 5 - Devils 06:32
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Chapter 6 - Friends & Family 07:52
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Chapter 7 - To Cambridge 05:54
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Chapter 8 - Romance 09:03
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Chapter 9 - Women's Sufferage 05:04
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Chapter 10 - Marriage to George 08:04
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Chapter 11 - To London 07:53
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Chapter 12 - The Party People (Cedric Morris) 13:30
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Chapter 13 - Drunkenness 04:58
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Chapter 14 - John & Deià 07:11
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Chapter 15 - Robert Graves & Laura Riding 05:03
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Chapter 16 - Getting Lost 03:18
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Chapter 17 - The Witch 05:52
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Chapter 18 - Great Bardfield 03:58
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For some time I have been working on this Audiobook. There is an honesty box policy with it, you can download it for free or pay what you think it might be worth. Please note, this is only Lucie's part of the book, not the postscript.

Before & After Great Bardfield - The Artistic Memoirs of Lucie Aldridge.

“It will have to wait until I’m dead or Laura will shoot me”, this is what Lucie Aldridge wrote of her autobiography, referring to Robert Graves’s long-term mistress and muse Laura Riding. A painter and rug weaver, Lucie Aldridge settled in the Essex village of Great Bardfield in 1933 with her husband, the painter John Aldridge. Also living there at that time were Eric Ravilious and his wife Tirzah Garwood who were cohabiting with Charlotte and Edward Bawden. When Tirzah and John had an affair it tarnished the Aldridge’s marriage forever, something Garwood didn’t acknowledge in her biography Long Live Great Bardfield.

The memoirs were written at the suggestion of the editor of Time magazine, T. S. Matthews. They describe her unorthodox childhood in Cambridgeshire, the involvement of her family in Women’s Suffrage, her marriage during the First World War, and her experiences at Art School in London in the 1920s. A beautiful woman, she posed for several artists. She also observed the post-War era of the Bright Young Things and the painters she knew, including Robert Bevan, Cedric Morris and Stanley Spencer. Through John Aldridge she came to know Robert Graves when he was living in Deià with Riding, and provides a fascinating account of her visits there while Graves was in self-imposed exile after writing Goodbye to All That. During these visits she also met poets and artists such as Norman Cameron and Len Lye.

I have set up an honestly box style method of purchase where you can download it for free, or pay what you wish.

Before & After Great Bardfield - The Artistic Memoirs of Lucie Aldridge.
© Robjn Cantus, Inexpensive Progress.2021.

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released March 20, 2024

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