But there could be several prequels and sequels to Lee, as the title of her son Antony Penrose’s biography The Lives of Lee Miller indicates. Born in 1907 in Poughkeepsie, New York, Elizabeth “Lee” ...

The photographs she took were exhibited alongside Miller’s originals not long ago at Farley’s House and Gallery, where Miller’s archives are kept and Winslet’s table once anchored the kitchen.

Lee Miller in 1943, as a war correspondent during the Second World War. (U.S. Army Center of Military History), CC BY-SA LEE examines Miller’s life and career before and after the Second World War. In ...

Lee Miller was rarely stationary. Born in upstate New York shortly after the turn of the century, the future Vogue model and pioneering war photographer first came to prominence at the age of 19, ...

Lee Miller, Artillery spotters with telephones in Hotel Ambassadeurs directing fire on Grand Bey and St Malo old town, Hotel Ambassadeurs, St Malo, France, 1944.

GRINDING her muddy boots into the immaculate white bath mat, model turned photojournalist Lee Miller stripped off and lowered herself into the tub. The date was April 30, 1945, the location Munich,… ...

Lee Miller died at Farleys in 1977; her ashes are buried here. Ami admits that, sometimes, working late into the night, she feels her grandmother’s powerful, uncompromising presence.

“If I Googled her in 2015 when I bought the table, it said ‘Lee Miller, former lover and muse of Man Ray. Ex-Vogue cover girl. Ex-model.’” “I just thought, no, no, hang on,” Winslet says.