by Tessa Boase
‘Bloomsbury’ in Sussex: the extraordinary ménage that Grace entered as a 16-year-old housemaid. Vanessa Bell cuts Lytton Strachey’s hair while (left to right) Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and guest look on. © The Granger Collection/TopFoto
Grace in the garden at Charleston, 1920s. Vanessa Bell thought her bone structure ‘unusually aristocratic’ for a working class girl. © The British Library Board (Add 83246A 1:f9)
Grace Higgens and her husband Walter–known as ‘The Dolt’ by Vanessa Bell–at Charleston, 1960s. © The British Library Board (Add 83246A 8:f103)
Holkham Hall, Norfolk: the imposing sight that greets housekeeper Nicky Garner when she drives to work every morning. By kind permission of Viscount Coke and the Trustees of the Holkham Estate
Nicky (centre) and her ‘girls’, 2012. ‘Nicky is not at all the stereotype,’ says Lady Coke. ‘She’s the sort of woman you might go and have a beer with.’ © Magnum Photos
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