George Granville Barker
(1913-1991), PoetSitter in 11 portraits
George Barker was educated in London and, although he left school aged fourteen, he was determined to become a writer. His first job was for the editor John Middleton Murry who gave Barker work as a reviewer and introduced him to the bohemian circle of 1930s writers. He contributed to the radical journal Twentieth Century and published his first book Thirty Preliminary Poems (1933) at the age of twenty. Barker went on to produce several more volumes of verse, including Calamiterror (1937), At Thurgarton Church (1969) and Villa Stellar (1978).
George Granville Barker; Jessica Winifred Theresa Barker (née Woodward)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1936
NPG Ax143983
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1936
NPG Ax143984
Jessica Winifred Theresa Barker (née Woodward); George Granville Barker
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1936
NPG Ax143985
Jessica Winifred Theresa Barker (née Woodward); George Granville Barker
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1936
NPG Ax143986
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, 1945
NPG x82177
by Granville Davies
bromide print, January 1986
NPG x25189
by Granville Davies
bromide print, January 1986
NPG x25190
by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
bromide fibre print, 1990
NPG x35161
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