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Garwood's daughter, Anne Ullman wrote, "During the last year of Tirzah's life, sometimes in bed and often in pain, relived by deep ray therapy and testosterone, Tirzah completed no less than twenty small oil paintings." A family friend, Olive Cook recalls how Garwood astounded her friends
379:, Eric Ravilious's plane went missing off Iceland; it was later determined that he died in a plane crash on 2 September 1942. His body was never recovered. The government proved reluctant to pay Garwood the widow's pension she was due or to settle Ravilious's outstanding pay for over a year.
334:, Garwood was inspired by Charlotte Bawden to experiment with marbled paper. She created exquisite repeated designs which were used for lampshades and books. Garwood's marbling work was known for ethereal designs and natural dream-like forms and is currently held at the
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in the Bible, and possibly a corruption of a reference by her grandmother to "Little Tertia", that is, the third child. She and her family accompanied her father on army postings to
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awareness of the tyranny of society's expectations of women but also the sense that hers was a generation and a milieu from which radical transformations in behaviour could be expected."
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surgery in March 1942. She wrote her autobiography from March and May 1942, while recovering from the surgery. Originally intended only for her family, the autobiography,
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