Mary Garman

Roy and Mary Campbell (left), Jacob Kramer and Dolores (right), 1920s. Mary Margaret Garman Campbell (1898–1979) was the eldest of the seven Garman sisters known for their glamorous, bohemian lifestyles and their many love affairs with famous artists, writers, and musicians of interwar London. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the wife of the radical South African poet Roy Campbell, who attacked the group in The Georgiad (1931), a response to his wife's lesbian affair with Vita Sackville-West.

Biography Mary Margaret Garman was the eldest daughter of Walter Garman, a physician. She and her younger siblings grew up in the, "stately Elizabethan manor house," of Oakeswell Hall, Wednesbury, in the bleak surroundings of the Black Country.

Their childhood was a privileged one, "with the full retinue of governesses, nannies, parlor maids, and gardeners."

In the 1930s, Mary and Roy Campbell moved to the south of France among Augustus John, Aldous Huxley, Sybille Bedford and Nancy Cunard, and later to Spain. She and her husband were received into the Roman Catholic Church.

She was driving the car when her husband was killed in a road accident in 1957. She died in 1979.