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, 1996.
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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
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
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...
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...
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...