ABSTRACT
Miller's warning about women's lives being particularly vulnerable in their "relation to the culture's central notions of plausibility" and her pithy statement: "To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to reinscribe the original violation, to reviolate masculine turf," both of which are taken up by Heilbrun, are particularly appropriate in relation to these three women, whose choices were unusual. About Bloomsbury, Nigel Nicolson's "Bloomsbury, the Myth and the Reality" is enlightening, and our collective reinterpretation of that very myth as well as that reality has accumulated its own myth. But Roger himself was not so depressed always about his art: in some of his letters, he comments on the favorable reception of his own painting in France, in comparison to that of Duncan; about the latter, he makes the point that he does not think it is just envy and jealousy on his part that inspires him to say this.
