Gluck: Her Biography

Diana Souhami's critically acclaimed biography of lesbian painter Hannah Gluckstein—the woman, the artist, the legend

To her family, Hannah Gluckstein was known as Hig. To Edith Shackleton Heald, the journalist with whom she lived for almost forty years, she was Dearest Grub. And to the art world, she was simply Gluck.

She was born in 1895 into a life of privilege. Her family had founded J. Lyons & Co., a vast catering empire. From the beginning Gluck was a rebel. At a time when only men...