-
Recent Posts
Archives
- October 2019
- October 2018
- October 2017
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
Pages
Categories
-
E. P. Beaumont on Twitter
My TweetsBlogroll
Links
Tag Archives: Leonie Hallward and the Secession of Greenwich Village
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 3 August 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)
Mabel Dodge is a sort of eclectic Mme de Stael, who brings together a various society. One of the daughters of my host’s house, a vivacious beauty of surprisingly advanced views, promised me an evening there. “Papa,” she confided, “is … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)
The fact of human faces — well, that’s another thing. I cherish that portrait of me that uncle Basil painted, because it is honest. It is a more honest mirror than my own silvered glass, for it observes what I … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 20 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)
My mother and Basil argued over color, in a way that was immediately familiar when I was a student at the Academie Julian, drinking strong tea in the cafes with my friends. Those quarrels were the grown-up correspondent of my … Continue reading
Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 July 2014 (WIP: Leonie Hallward)
The summer after my uncle Basil’s disappearance, we stayed at his country pied-a-terre, in which my father was part-owner. Nothing had been changed; the place was still as it had been. The studio was closed off; one afternoon Ralph and I ventured … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 23 September 2012 (Leonie Hallward and the Secession of Greenwich Village)
“One infuses a bit of oneself in a good portrait.” Even if it were only the black kitten Merveille, in a beam of sunlight, and his shadow, quick India-ink shifting across the sunlit floor. Basil smiled, and I watched the … Continue reading
Summer NaNo: Excerpt (Leonie Hallward and the Secession of Greenwich Village)
Needless to say, I didn’t finish my Summer NaNo in June, due to the disruptions of preparing Erika and the Vampire for publication. The target was 50,000 words in thirty days; I managed about 16,500 words of Leonie Hallward and the Secession of … Continue reading
E. P. Beaumont 