Denise Hooker

Back in Tenby, her father and grandmother sent her to a stricter school, a high-class Academy for young Ladies at Westgate-on-Sea.NH did not relish the new experience, and ran away, but...

Hooker observes that by this time Nina had abandoned her earlier attempts at writing and was concentrating on art. She won a prize for foreign languages (undeserved, she said), and, with a close friend...

NH frequented the Fitzroy Tavern with a number of her artist friends. Later in her life, even after the tavern was no longer in vogue among artists (the more popular destination having shifted to Soho)...

Denise Hooker lists NH 's exhibitions in her monograph.

NH 's father would physically punish her when her behaviour deviated from prescribed Victorian gender roles. Denise Hooker , NH 's biographer, notes that her father regularly tried to beat her into submission with a...