![]() ![]() A previous biographer, Robert Speaight, who had published in the mid-60s, had seen the same material, but MacCarthy, as she has pointed out, was writing in 1989, well after Michael Holroyd's ground-breaking life of Lytton Strachey, so that "the conventions of biography were considerably altered, frank discussion of the sex life of one's subject being well on its way to becoming de rigueur". A biography of Eric Gill, it broke the news of the artist's unorthodox (and now rather famous) sexual behaviour, as detailed in his diaries – numerous affairs with the women who lived in his saintly commune, incest with his sisters and his daughters, and even over-familiarity with the family dog. F iona MacCarthy's first full-length book caused a sensation. ![]()
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