Barbara Hepworth both. They would lead in the path to modernism in sculpture. Despite attempting to gain a position in what was a male-dominated environment, Hepworth successfully won a county scholarship to attend the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, and studied there from 1921 until she was awarded the diploma of the Royal College of Art in 1924. Following her studies at the RCA, Hepworth travelled to Florence, Italy, in 1924 on a West Riding Travel Scholarship. Hepworth was also the runner-up for the Prix-de-Rome, which the sculptor John Skeaping won. After travelling with him to Siena and Rome, Hepworth
Barbara Epstein Barbara Epstein Barbara Epstein (August 30, 1928 – June 16, 2006) was a literary editor and founding co-editor of "The New York Review of Books". Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Jewish family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949. In 1953, she and editor Jason Epstein began a marriage that lasted 37 years. Epstein rose to prominence as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl", among other books. She next worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill and the "Partisan Review". During the New York newspaper strike of 1963, Barbara and Jason