Unusual Power: Mary Hutchinson

"What an unusual power you have, you are no ordinary person", painter Henry Tonks said about his muse and friend Mary Hutchinson (1889-1977). Hutchinson, born Mary Barnes in India, lost her mother very young and adapted well to a bohemian Italian existence with her maternal grandparents. A half-cousin of Lytton Strachey, she fell in among his friends and acquaintances in the Bloomsbury Set. Quickly pounced upon for extramarital affairs by Vita Sackville-West, Maria Huxley and Clive Bell, Hutchinson inspired art and snippy comments alike. She may have been one of the major propelling forces to writer and playwright T.S. Eliot.

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"The remarkable relationship of T. S. Eliot and Mary Hutchinson.." The Free Library. 2011 Murphy Newsletter Services 17 Jan. 2024 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+remarkable+relationship+of+T.+S.+Eliot+and+Mary+Hutchinson.-a0316939158

Nicholas Murray, Aldous Huxley, March 2003

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