Clive Bell

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...

Whilst at Garsington, Brett also developed close friendships with Aldous Huxley and his future wife Maria Nys (she was said to have provided the basis for Jenny Mullion in Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow...

In Rome during the First World War, DW became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott , and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners . In the years after the war she formed her important...

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...

Lytton Strachey told Leonard Woolf that Virginia's story was a work of genius. The liquidity of the style fills me with envy . . . . How on earth does she make the English language...

The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader...

Novel on Yellow Paper was an immediate critical success. Appreciation expressed in reviews by Naomi Mitchison and Rosamond Lehmann laid the foundations for SS 's friendships with these and other writers. A poet, Robert Nichols

In 1910 the committee was expanded and renamed the Contemporary Art Society. Its members then included the original four founders, plus Clive Bell and Ottoline's brother Henry Bentinck . 44 Bedford Square functioned as the...

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 .

Assigned to farm labour, registered conscientious objectors including Clive Bell began to arrive at LOM 's estate, Garsington Manor, to work there.

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 's professional reputation began to shift at about this time. From the early 1920s, she developed an increasingly strong self-image as an adult woman and writer. More and more, her novels both won praise...

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.

Hermione Lee sees VW 's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality. Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...

She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.