Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 Book

Interesting rather than riveting. This book about British bohemia in the first half of the 20th century is divided into sections - the choice of hardship over material comforts, the push for sexual freedom, new approaches to child rearing, rebellion through dress, revolutionising eating habits, changing the nature of domesticity. The book is largely made up of anecdotes, snapshots of the lives of many artists and writers, most of whom not so well known. It's the kind of book that helps inform you who you would like to read about in more detail - in my case, Augustus John and Dylan Thomas. The research that must have gone into it is very impressive and it's well written. However I'm not sure I learned much that isn't essentially common knowledge. I actually bought this on a misapprehension that it was about Vanessa Bell and how her house Charleston was managed. Teach me to read the blurb of a book more closely before hitting the buy now button.