Only Connect - Harriet Cohen <> Rebecca West
How are these sitters connected?
Harriet Cohen
by Clara Klinghoffer
1925
NPG 5736
Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Andrews (née Fairfield))
by Wyndham Lewis
1932
NPG 5693
The connection
Rebecca West wrote a novel, Harriet Hume, about the romance between the pianist Harriet Cohen and composer Arnold Bax.
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