Emmy Bridgwater

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Artist Emmy Bridgwater studied at Birmingham School of Art, England, and at the Grosvenor School of Art in London, England. She became attracted to Surrealism, and was introduced to the London Group in early 1940. She contributed to the Surrealist magazine Arson in 1942, and in the same year held a one-woman exhibition at Jack Bilbo's Modern Art Gallery in London. She settled in London in around 1948, and remained there until 1986, when she returned to Birmingham. She participated in many retrospective or group Surrealist exhibitions from 1986.

Women artists, Bridgwater, Emmy Frith

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Dmitri Likhachev

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Literary historian Dmitri Likhachev graduated in 1928 from Leningrad University, Russia. After writing a humorous essay on the Bolshevik reform of the Russian language, he was held in a prison camp on the Solovki Islands between 1928 and 1932. He subsequently gained a PhD in medieval Russian literature. After being rehabilitated in 1936, he joined the Leningrad Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Science in 1938. He became a leading authority on Russian literature from the 10th to the 17th centuries.

Literary historians, Likhachev, Dmitri Sergeevich

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Fredda Brilliant

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Sculptor and actress Fredda Brilliant was born in Poland. She went to Australia in her early 20s, and spent some time in theatre in Melbourne, Australia. She then moved to New York, NY, in the late 1920s and underwent operatic training. She developed an interest in sculpture, and won a competition to sculpt Russian politician Vyacheslav Molotov. She spent some years in Russia, moving to London, England, in 1937. She worked in a touring theatrical company during the second world war.

Women sculptors, Brilliant, Fredda

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