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The interior of the van was carefully reproduced for the film which is based on Bennettâs play. âOn this assortment of eiderdowns duvets and old ta-
blecloths Miss Shepherd used to sleep and also she would have said to work - making notes for True View the pamphlet she used to sell on the corner
of Camden High Street.â Bennett ran an electric cable from his house to the van so she could watch television here rather than in the window of Currys
Over the years I grew rather accustomed to Miss Shepherdâs
interiors. I began to reflect that environments the artists Edward
and Nancy Kienholz would have had to labour over came to Miss
Shepherd quite naturally and in which in all of her vans she was
comfortably (and odorously) embowered. âDistressedâ hardly de-
scribes the finish she so effortlessly achieved. r79