Vanessa Bell

Because Virginia was recovering from her breakdown after her father's death, Vanessa took the primary responsibility for settling the family into their newly independent life. Virginia instead spent some time out of London, staying with...

Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...

The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , E. M. Forster , and Lytton Strachey , the economic theories of Maynard Keynes

VW was especially pleased with her new ability to publish her own texts. She later observed: I'm the only woman in England free to write what I like. The Press also allowed for...

Virginia was keen to regain access to the amenities of London—music, the British Museum , social life (her delight in parties, she wrote, was a piece of jewellery I inherit from my mother)

In October 1928 VW addressed in turn the students of the two Cambridge women's colleges: first Newnham , then Girton . She developed these lectures on women and writing into A Room of One's Own...

The event was organized in part by Pippa Strachey ; other guests included Vanessa Bell , Cicely Hamilton , Laura Knight , Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , and T. S. Eliot . Here 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 .

Virginia and Vanessa Stephen (later Woolf and Bell) and Violet Dickinson left England for Greece, where at Olympia on 13 September they met up with Thoby and Adrian Stephen .

It continued weekly until April 1895 (the year Virginia's mother died). Two of its stories (A Cockney's Farming Experiences and The Experiences of a Paterfamilias) were published in the late twentieth century.

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...

For six years from 1923, during the lifetime of Quentin and Julian Bell 's handwritten The Charleston Bulletin (on the model of their mother and aunt's Hyde Park Gate News), VW contributed Christmas supplements...

Virginia Stephen (later VW ) moved to 29 Fitzroy Square to live with her surviving brother, Adrian . Vanessa and Clive Bell took over the former family home at 46 Gordon Square.

Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa , Clive Bell

VW published Kew Gardens at the Hogarth Press , with illustrations drawn by Vanessa Bell and done as woodcuts by Carrington ; they were printing in November 1918 and choosing paper for a cover in...