It may not sound like the most bohemian existence, but one key event soon put her in touch with the New York avant-garde.

He arrived in Paris at 18, wide-eyed and ambitious, and quickly fell into a passionate, bohemian existence of drugs, alcohol and brothels.

The Fiennes brood led a nomadic, bohemian existence, moving house 14 times in as many years, bouncing from Suffolk to Ireland to Wiltshire to London.

Not only were they different - no longer students willing to accept a bohemian existence in Greenwich Village - they were viewed differently.

Despite these serious financial and spiritual difficulties, Smith continued to write while leading a bohemian existence in the Latin Quarter.

In January 1864, Whistler's very religious and very proper mother arrived in London, upsetting her son's bohemian existence and temporarily exacerbating family tensions.

She carried on a bohemian, later Fitzrovian existence socially, in parallel with a home life.

Because of his refusal to enter one of the learned professions, he was disowned by his father, and for the next ten years he lived a bohemian existence.

His own bohemian, often picaresque, existence resonated with an ethical enthusiasm that saw him join the Aldermaston March and suffer imprisonment for his anti-nuclear principles.

Esther, "subversive, aggressive, commanding, Napoleonic of manner," transfers her bohemian existence at Cambridge to London intact, taking odd jobs lecturing on art.