Noble Savages

Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters

Sarah Watling (author)

From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly 'wild'. Rupert Brooke was said to be in love with all four of them; D. H. Lawrence thought they were frankly 'wrong'; Virginia Woolf found them curiously difficult to read. In this intimate, sweeping biography, Sarah Watling brings the sisters in from the margins, tracing lives that span colonial Jamaica, the bucolic life of Victorian progressives, the frantic optimism of Edwardian Cambridge, the bleakness of two world wars, and a host of evolving philosophies for life over the course of the twentieth century.

Noble Savages is a compelling portrait of sisterhood in all its complexities, which rediscovers the lives of four extraordinary women within the varied fortunes of the feminism of their times, while illuminating the battles and ethics of biography itself.

Sarah Watling is the author of Noble Savages, for which she was awarded the Tony Lothian Prize. She holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and London, and was a 2020 a Silvers Grant recipient.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (6 Aug. 2020)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781784707170
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm