But they also reveal Bulfinch's own prophetic sense of the massive volumes of space and stone that would define later neoclassicism, exemplified in the structures designed by RobertMills for the nation's capital and in the South.
Mr Marnham lists some of her lovers Peter Hope, Norman Pearson, John Montagu-Pollock, John Platts-Mills, Heinz Ziegler, Raymond Lee, Robert d'Alsace but there were plenty more, ending with Robert Bolt, an English playwright and dramatist, when she was in her late 60s and a widow.