Letters reveal postnatal crisis of Barbara Hepworth

Previously unpublished correspondence sheds new light on artist’s struggle to pursue career while caring for triplets alone For decades, Barbara Hepworth has been portrayed as a coldly ambitious artist who sent her children away when they were infants so that she could focus on her work. Now, however, that view is to be challenged by previously unpublished letters showing how deeply Hepworth struggled to care alone for her newborn triplets, and how she agonised over what to do for the best