This is just called 'A Girl Reading' and it's by the great Bloomsbury artist Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). I suspect it to be a portrait of her daughter Angelica, who was born in 1918 and would have been fourteen when this was painted in 1932.
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Harriet Devine: Looking Back: Playwrights at the Royal Court, 1956-2006
Harriet Devine Jump: Nineteenth Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology
Harriet Devine Jump: Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837-1901: An Anthology
Harriet Devine Jump: Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology
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04 March 2017
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