Wimpole History Festival: Oonagh Kennedy - Nancy Astor Off the Pedestal

Sunday 24 June 2018
Grand Dining Room - Wimpole Estate
Britain’s first female MP Nancy Astor, well-known socialite and wit, was also an important patron – and subject – of twentieth-century painting and sculpture.

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Cliveden Curator Oonagh Kennedy considers how female emancipation, the expression of the ‘New Woman’ and Nancy’s perception of herself came together in John Singer Sargent’s 1908 portrait of Viscountess Astor, and what that meant for Nancy.
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13:30 - 14:30