Vanessa Bell

Standard Name: Bell, Vanessa
Used Form: Vanessa Stephen

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Textual Features Pat Barker
The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor...
Friends, Associates Stella Benson
SB met Lord David Cecil at a dinner with Virginia and Leonard Woolf , after which they all went on to Clive and Vanessa Bell 's house.
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
254, 255
Reception Emily Brontë
Feminist literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert responded to both Emilies in one of her poetic collections: Emily's Bread (1984), and Anne Carson to EB , her favourite author and main fear, which I mean to...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Bussy
La Souco was visited regularly by all of their Bloomsbury Group friends, among them Lytton and the other Strachey siblings, the Vanessa and Clive Bell , Virginia and Leonard Woolf , John Maynard Keynes and...
politics Dorothy Bussy
DB and her daughter Janie were active anti-Fascists during World War II, though their specific activities and affiliations are unclear. In November 1944 Vanessa Bell wrote to Molly MacCarthy about some of the Bussys' work...
Leisure and Society Leonora Carrington
As she had in Paris, LC produced new writing and visual art. She and Ernst also decorated walls, cupboard doors, and other spaces with paintings, carvings, and sculptures that produced a singular aesthetic for their...
Friends, Associates Dora Carrington
DC met certain members of the Bloomsbury Group for the first time: she attended the World's Fair at Islington with David Garnett , Vanessa Bell , and Duncan Grant , among others.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
61
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Selected by Roger Fry , Carrington 's Tulips was shown at the Grosvenor Galleries ' Nameless Exhibition of Modern British Painting.
At this exhibition, Henry Tonks (who had supervised both Carrington and Vanessa Bell
Publishing Elaine Feinstein
EF issued through her new publisher, Carcanet , her Selected Poems, taken from her eleven previous poetry volumes. The cover features a painting by Vanessa Bell .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma.
226
Occupation Roger Fry
After returning from New York, RF met Vanessa and Clive Bell on a train from Cambridge to London, and arranged for Clive's assistance with the upcoming Post-Impressionist exhibition at the Grafton Gallery .
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
95
Occupation Roger Fry
At 33 Fitzroy Square in Bloomsbury, London, founder RF opened the Omega Workshops , an artists' group whose participants included Wyndham Lewis , Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant (both co-directors), and Dora Carrington .
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
195
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 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...
Occupation Nina Hamnett
NH recounts how, feeling brave one morning, she entered the post-impressionist Omega Workshops , and asked to see Mr. [Roger] Fry. This charming man with grey hair told her, on her request for work...
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...

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.