Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell

Author : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813537061
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snapshots of Bloomsbury written by Maggie Humm and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs, some barely known, on the domestic lives of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) and the historical, cultural and artistic milieux of their circle in Bloomsbury, including Vivienne Eliot, Vita Sackville-West, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Dora Carrington.

Author : Priya Parmar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408850222
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanessa and Her Sister written by Priya Parmar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Prepare to be dazzled' Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife 'One of the essential reads of the year' The Times London, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. And at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter and Virginia, the writer. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must choose whether to protect Virginia's happiness or her own.

Author : Nuala Hancock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074866484X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charleston and Monk's House written by Nuala Hancock and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling new study reveals, for the first time, through an emplaced investigation, the potential of Charleston and Monk's House to illuminate the shared histories of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

Author : Susan Sellers
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547393881
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanessa & Virginia written by Susan Sellers and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell “captures the sisters’ seesaw dynamic as they vacillate between protecting and hurting each other” (The Christian Science Monitor). You see, even after all these years, I wonder if you really loved me. Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitter rivals, and artistic collaborators. As children, they fight for the attention of their overextended mother, their brilliant but difficult father, and their adored brother, Thoby. As young women, they support each other through a series of devastating deaths, then emerge in bohemian Bloomsbury, bent on creating new lives and groundbreaking works of art. Through everything—marriage, lovers, loss, madness, children, success and failure—the sisters remain the closest of co-conspirators. But they also betray each other. In this lyrical, impressionistic account, written as a love letter and an elegy from Vanessa to Virginia, Susan Sellers imagines her way into the heart of the lifelong relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell. With sensitivity and fidelity to what is known of both lives, Sellers has created a powerful portrait of sibling rivalry, and “beautifully imagines what it must have meant to be a gifted artist yoked to a sister of dangerous, provocative genius” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). “A delectable little book for anyone who ever admired the Bloomsbury group. . . . A genuine treat.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726507706
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kew Gardens written by Virginia Woolf and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees... one's happiness, one's reality?" A family of four is walking around Kew Gardens in London, lost in their thoughts. The husband thinks of the girl who turned down his marriage proposal in this very garden many years ago. When asking his wife if it upsets her that he's thinking about this other woman, she reasons that one's past is like ghosts lying under the trees. Only Virginia Woolf can write a short story about completely ordinary things and people and make you long for more. With exquisite prose, she invites you along as she examines the beauty of normal summer's day. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer who, despite growing up in a progressive household, was not allowed an education. When she and her sister moved in with their brothers in a rough London neighborhood, they joined the infamous The Bloomsbury Group, which debated philosophy, art and politics. Woolf's most famous novels include 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927).

Author : Adam Scovell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800347030
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Horror written by Adam Scovell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw), and Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) have arisen again, most notably in the films of Ben Wheatley (Kill List), as has the Spirit of Dark of Lonely Water, Juganets, cursed Saxon crowns, spaceships hidden under ancient barrows, owls and flowers, time-warping stone circles, wicker men, the goat of Mendes, and malicious stone tapes. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century.

Author : Marion Dell
Publisher : Tabby House
ISBN 13 : 9781873951460
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell written by Marion Dell and published by Tabby House. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By drawing together strands in their subjects' family relations and environment, the authors provide fresh insight into the lives of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. In the formative years of their childhood the two sisters spent every summer with their large family and numerous friends at Talland House in St Ives. In her Introduction Helen Dunmore writes: 'Marion Dell and Marion Whybrow reveal how powerfully the vision of both Woolf and Bell sprang from their early life in St Ives.' The Prologue gives a portrait of this fishing town and artists' colony, 'on the very toe nail of England', at the time of the Stephen family's visits, from the early 1880s. Then come chapters on life at Talland House; the sisters' remarkable parents, Leslie Stephen and Julia Duckworth Stephen; and Vanessa and Virginia themselves, and how they developed their writing and painting. notable visitors such as the writer Henry James. Later, Marion Whybrow shows us Vanessa learning to paint, until finally basing herself for a lifetime's work as with her family at Charleston in Sussex, the centre for the artists of the Bloomsbury Group. Marion Dell explores how Virginia returned continually to St Ives, both in her life and in her writing.

Author : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
ISBN 13 : 9780813532660
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernist Women and Visual Cultures written by Maggie Humm and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes some of the visual aspects of modernism - photo albums and image-texts - and examines the ways in which modernist women explore a freer range of aesthetics in their work.

Author : Vanessa Curtis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299183400
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Women written by Vanessa Curtis and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the caregivers of her Victorian childhood who instilled in her a lifelong battle between creativity and convention: her taciturn sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; aristocratic novelist Vita Sackville-West; and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth.

Author : Vanessa Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559212618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell written by Vanessa Bell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains over 300 letters of painter & decorative designer Vanessa Bell, the central figure in the Bloomsbury group.