{"product_id":"9781445670645","title":"Bohemian Lives : Three Extraordinary Women: Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Licence, Amy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLanguage\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 15 June 2017 by Amberley Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 272 pages, 30 Illustrations, unspecified\u003cbr\u003e167 x 241 x 26 | 530g\u003cp\u003eIda Nettleship was a flamboyant Bohemian who gave up a promising artistic career to marry Augustus John. She had five pregnancies in just six years, lived with Augustus and his mistress in a menage a trois, and died exhausted in childbirth aged thirty. Ida's story of unconventional love is equalled by two other Bohemian women of the same era: Picasso's first love Fernande Olivier, who was prominent in the Paris art scene, and the writer Sophie Brzeska, who lived with the artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, nineteen years her junior - he would die in the First World War and Sophie's slow descent into mental instability would begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBohemian Lives follows the achievements and sacrifices of the three women and how their lives overlapped and contrasted, in education, childbirth, illness, marriage - and psychological disintegration. All three women had a huge influence on their more famous partner and challenged the accepted model of male-female relations of the time. At once touching and harrowing, their struggles for recognition in their own right hold a mirror up to the prejudices of an age - and what being 'bohemian' really meant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Licence, Amy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50665557721272,"sku":"9781445670645","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781445670645.jpg?v=1734703162","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781445670645","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}