Literature

Marjorie Reynolds, Dorothy Kay, Everything You Do is a Portrait of Yourself, Alec Marjorie Reynolds, Rosebank, 1989, page 253, where this figure is discussed:

'Darlings all - Did a Shakespeare Statue today - & all the while I could hear Marda saying 'Oh I would'nt have done him like that - He should be this ... or that...' & so I battled against odds! Its very dull really - but will make a book end - the other (end) still to be done, dont know what - all poets and writers look the same Swinburne, Bacon - Chaucer etc: I thought of Lady Macbeth - or Othello -? & by the way in the Drinkwater old volumes on literature, there's a photograph of Forbes Robertson as Othello, looking very good - very pale in colour - well dressed - Just the job!

Then I thought maybe an opposite end of a lute & pipes & scrolls & this & that - a still life - How's that - no more clay - used last ounce - had to keep hollowing it out to get last bits! like scraping all the best bits out of an egg!!! High forehead - done from an old print of him that is supposed to be the best likeness - I added the laurels for richness - & deserving!!'