Table of Contents

1. Early Years, 1907–1929
2. Photography in Surrealist Paris, 1929–1932
3. Photography in Fashionable New York, 1932–1934
4. Egypt and First Marriage, 1934–1937
5. Escape from Egypt, 1937–1939
6. ‘Grim Glory’: Wartime London, 1939–1944
7. Lee’s War, 1944–1945
8. Spinning It Out: Austria, 1945
9. The Last Waltz: Eastern Europe, 1945–1946
10. Winged Serpents: Married Life in Hampstead and Sussex, 1946–1956
11. Food, Friends and Faraway Places

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'Antony Penrose lovingly and entertainingly pulls together the diverse threads of his mother's remarkable life' The Times

About the Author

Antony Penrose is a British photographer. The son of Sir Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, Penrose is director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his parents' former home, Farley Farm House.

Reviews

'Antony Penrose lovingly and entertainingly pulls together the diverse threads of his mother’s remarkable life' - The Times

'A fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit' - Sunday Times

'A marvellously balanced narrative' - New Yorker

'Eminently readable and thoroughly enjoyable' - British Journal of Photography