Overview

Euphemia Lamb’s story is the extraordinary history of a woman born in 1887 into a family without money, education or status, yet she managed to break through class barriers by the sheer force of her charisma and beauty.  Her iconoclastic, trailblazing life was a quixotic adventure of courage and bravado; carpe diem was the maxim she lived by. With a sequence of lovers and husbands, and gregarious appetite for living, the choices Euphemia made were a sustained, authentic and ultimately profoundly moving rejection of the strictures and constraints others sought to impose on her. Euphemia was one of the most famous artists’ models of the early 1900s. She was a muse to Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, and James Dickson Innes. In Paris she became the lover of Henri-Pierre Roché, the author of ‘Jules et Jim’, and she was the inspiration for Catherine, the woman at the centre of the passionate menage à trois depicted in both the novel and Francois Truffaut’s film.  

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Author:   Romilly Turton
Publisher:   The Conrad Press
Imprint:   The Conrad Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 19.80cm
ISBN:  

9781916966956

ISBN 10:   1916966950
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   24 November 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents   Measuring value    3 Introduction 4 Prelude        11 The ball       11 Part One       17 Chapter 1     16 The age of innocence       16 Chapter 2     35 Henry Lamb and Euphemia Forrest     35 Chapter 3     54 Henry and Euphemia Lamb in Paris     54 Chapter 4     70 Paris and Holland  70 Chapter 5     88 Euphemia, Giselle, Roché and Hessel  88 Chapter 6     104 Euphemia, Roché and SKOF     104 Chapter 7     125 Euphemia and Crowley    125 Chapter 8     132 Leaving France in 1908   132 Chapter 9     144 Family and friends: 1909-1911  144 Chapter 10   164 Euphemia Turton 1912-1915     164 Chapter 11   186 Euphemia Lamb and Christopher Turton 1916-1919         186 Part Two      205 Chapter 12   204 Mexican groves and Bombay duck      204 Chapter 13   227 Two Groves 227 Chapter 14   245 48 Cheyne Walk    245 Chapter 15   258 The search for security 1932-1938       258 Chapter 16   271 The parting of ways 1936-1938 271 Part 3 295 Chapter 17   295 The Groves at war 1939-1945    295 Chapter 18   321 The sands of time 1945-1957     321

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Romilly Turton is Euphemia’s grandson. This biography is based on archival research and uses unpublished private papers.

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