AWW22 The Legend of Charmian Clift - Tanya Dalziell, Paul Genoni and Polly Samson

Chaired by Sophie Cunningham


To celebrate the new edition of her classic texts, Mermaid
Singing and Peel Me a Lotus, Polly Samson (A Theatre for
Dreamers) and Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni (Half the Perfect
World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964)
discuss the life and literary legacy of Charmian Clift. Glorious
accounts of the bohemian life Charmian, husband George Johnston
and their family led in Greece, these two books encapsulate the
vivid, passionate and outrageously talented woman who was years
ahead of her time.