Vanessa Bell

Standard Name: Bell, Vanessa
Used Form: Vanessa Stephen

Connections

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Education Margaret Legge
The facts that she writes about art students, and that she attended the memorial service for art professor Henry Tonks on 15 January 1937, suggest that she may—like the somewhat younger Berta Ruck , Gwen John
Education Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was educated at home. As a very young girl, she was tutored by her mother in Latin, French, and history. When she was between thirteen and fifteen, her father gave her lessons for...
Education Olivia Manning
At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Ottoline Morrell
Shortly thereafter, however, Fry fell in love with Vanessa Bell and denied any commitment to LOM , while at the same time speaking hurtfully of her relationship with Russell and of her character in general...
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
VW 's sister, Vanessa , married art critic Clive Bell at St Pancras Registry Office in London. Lyndall Gordon maintains that Clive had a positive impact on Virginia's career, urging her to turn her...
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Virginia and Vanessa (1879-1961, the eldest of Leslie and Julia Stephen's children), were close to one another throughout their lives. In A Sketch of the Past, VW recalls that after the death of their...
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
The eldest of Julia's children from her first marriage, George Duckworth (1868-1934), was ten when his mother married VW 's father. He grew into a conservative young man and a social climber. After Julia's death...
Family and Intimate relationships Ling Shuhua
His position, teaching modern literature at the university, was made possible by his friend Margery Fry 's connections and sponsored by the Boxer Indemnity Fund . His relationship with LS began quickly: in a 22...
Family and Intimate relationships Roger Fry
In April 1911, Fry's personal relationship with the Bells began to change: a trip to Constantinople marked the start of a love affair between Fry and Vanessa Bell .
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
95
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
As when her brother Thoby died in 1906, Virginia became a source of strength during the family crisis, concentrating especially on the needs of her bereaved sister, Vanessa Bell .
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
702-3
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Garnett
David married twice and had four children by the time of his mother's death. His first wife, Ray Garnett , was an artist and illustrator. His second wife, Angelica Bell , was the daughter of...
Friends, Associates Nina Hamnett
Having achieved a footing of friendship with Walter Sickert and the others of the Fitzroy Street Group , NH went on through Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell to get to know the members of the...
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...
Friends, Associates Gertrude Stein
It was John Lane and Roger Fry who introduced them to the Bloomsbury circle. The trip did not result in a publishing contract, as GS had hoped, but it did advance her reputation. The next...
Friends, Associates Rosamond Lehmann
While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands . During the early...

Timeline

November 1905: The first exhibition of the Friday Club was...

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November 1905

The first exhibition of the Friday Club was held at the Alpine Club Gallery , London.

: Artist Vanessa Bell had eight works included...

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Autumn1917

Artist Vanessa Bell had eight works included in The New Movement in Art exhibition held in Birmingham and at the Mansard Gallery , London.

1924: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth...

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1924

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press published The Rector's Daughter, a novel by F. M. (or Flora Macdonald) Mayor .

1930: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant decorated the...

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1930

Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant decorated the dining-room at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, Sussex, for Lady Gerald Wellesley (the poet Dorothy Wellesley).

1932: Art historian Kenneth Clark commissioned...

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1932

Art historian Kenneth Clark commissioned from the Omega Workshops a set of dinner plates painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant bearing portrait heads of famous women, including Elizabeth I and other queens, Greta Garbo

July 1935: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were painting...

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July 1935

Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were painting wall-panels for a new Cunard transatlantic liner, the Queen Mary.

Texts

Lee, Hermione et al. “Foreword”. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper, edited by Gill Lowe and Gill Lowe, Hesperus Press, 2005, p. vii - x.
Woolf, Virginia et al. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper. Editor Lowe, Gill, Hesperus, 2005.
Woolf, Virginia et al. “Introduction”. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper, edited by Gill Lowe, Hesperus Press, 2005, p. xi - xviii.
Woolf, Virginia, and Vanessa Bell. Kew Gardens. Hogarth Press, 1919.
Woolf, Virginia, and Vanessa Bell. Monday or Tuesday. Hogarth Press, 1921.