"Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs Jo by Judith Mackrell (9780297849087)
Judith Mackrell Release Date: June 2008 Format: Hardback Pages: 496 Category: General Publisher: Hachette Livre ISBN: 9780297849087 ISBN-10: 0297849085
The untold and gloriously unpredictable life of Lydia Lopokova...Lydia's extraordinary story links ballet, politics, the bohemians, the Bloomsbury set and economics. Her boundless energy and sheer force of personality propelled her to the top of the Ballet Russes.She became a star in Paris, a vaudeville favourite in America, the toast of Europe during the war years and then the wife of Maynard Keynes.