Joanna Ward read History and Politics at Southampton University. She then qualified as a solicitor and had a career with a city law firm. On retirement, she took a Graduate Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Independent research followed, culminating in this, her first book.
“He is surrealist in the unexpectedness of his invention but lacks the solemnity that makes most surrealists so tedious.” The New Statesman’s judgement of 1938 could apply as much to Banting’s life as to his art. From the Bright Young People parties of Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies to Republ...
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