Vanessa Bell

Virginia and Leonard Woolf 's Hogarth Press published her Monday or Tuesday, with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell .

VW waited more than a week for comment of any kind on this publication, and was driven to dismiss her own disappointment as something she had now put behind her, writing the book off as...

VW 's nonsense comedy,Freshwater, first written in July 1923, was performed in Vanessa Bell 's studio before an audience of eighty friends.

She travelled with Vanessa and Angelica Bell to Cambridge, where she stayed with Pernel Strachey , Principal of Newnham.

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...

Ethel Smyth sent her responses to this book by telegram on publication day: Book astounding so far. Agitatingly increases value of life. Two days later she sent: Final paragraph almost smashes machine of life with...

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...

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...

AWE made her formal entry into society as a debutante, a change of status . . . important then for the young females of our sub-tribe. For herself and Edith Sitwell (debs at...

She had the dining room at Penns decorated by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant . They did three big wall panels each, plus designing furniture. The work was finished in 1931. While not...

When ST 's parents and Leslie Stephen tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa (later Bell), and Virginia (later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early...

The title is that of a tune by Charles Gounod , composed in 1872 (and more recently associated with the name of Alfred Hitchcock ). ST submitted the manuscript by 19 November 1934.

IT became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art . Vanessa Bell , Duncan Grant , and Roger Fry all painted portraits of her, and she wore...

Virginia Woolf found that the production of this book required a lot of work in the closing stages from her as publisher. She received the (apparently corrected) proofs by 2 March in a state calculated...

Michael Burn wrote an introduction for this book, and VT 's half-uncle Max Beerbohm wrote a letter which served as prefatory material. The book draws on a scrapbook or commonplace-book kept by Parsons: hence its...