The Daily Telegraph - Plain tales from the Tuscan hills
Honest-eyed. Very blue-eyed. She's clean and picks her feet up;' was Virginia Woolf's enigmatic verdict on Iris Origo when they met in the mid-Thirties. What did she mean? Origo was then a clever and elegant, if somewhat aloof, young woman, the daughter of a wealthy American and his aristocratic Anglo-Irish wife...
