Sex, scandal and anti-Semitism – the vivid life of Peggy Guggenheim
Written with Leslie Jamieson, Rebecca Godfrey’s elegant imagining of the heiress’s life celebrates the power of beauty, freedom and art
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Written with Leslie Jamieson, Rebecca Godfrey’s elegant imagining of the heiress’s life celebrates the power of beauty, freedom and art
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