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THE BIRMINGHAM POST AND GAZETTE Birmingham, Warwickshire, England 17 December 1956 (page 6)
Miss Nina Hamnett.
Miss Nina Hamnett, the 65-year-old sculptress, painter and authoress, who fell from a window in her flat on Thursday, died in hospital yesterday.
Miss Hamnett was once described by Augustus John as one of the four best English women painters.
He book Laughing Torso was the subject of a libel action in 1934, when the late Aleister Crowley alleged that it imputed that he had practised “black magic.” He lost his action.
Early this year Miss Hamnett published a book of reminiscences, Is She a Lady? |