Bohemian Lives: Three Extraordinary Women: Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier Licence Amy

Ida Nettleship was a flamboyant Bohemian who gave up a promising artistic career to marry Augustus John. Ida's story of unconventional love is equalled by two other Bohemian women of the same era: Picasso's first love Fernande Olivier, who was prominent in the Paris art scene, and the writer Sophie Brzeska, who lived with the artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, nineteen years her junior - he would die in the First World War and Sophie's slow descent into mental instability would begin. She had five pregnancies in just six years, lived with Augustus and his mistress in a m nage trois, and died exhausted in childbirth aged thirty.

All three women had a huge influence on their more famous partner Bohemian Lives follows the achievements and sacrifices of the three women and how their lives overlapped and contrasted, in education, childbirth, illness, marriage - and psychological disintegration.