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...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
(Vanessa launched a parallel meeting for artists on Fridays: the Friday Club
.) VW
wrote that the Thursday evenings were the germ of all that has since come to be called—in newspapers, in novels, in...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
VW
heard E. M. Forster
's talk on The Feminine Note in Literature at the Friday Club
. His novel Howards End had appeared the previous October.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
271
Occupation
Nina Hamnett
An Omega
still-life show exemplified the greater recognition NH
received this year for her art. She exhibited widely, showing drawings, still lifes and portraits with the Friday Club
, the London Group
and the New English Art Club
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...
Textual Features
Flora Macdonald Mayor
On top of this, FMM
also gives a lively caricature,
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
266
a scathing portrait of literary society, especially the Friday Club
, the embryonic Bloomsbury [Group] founded by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell
...
Timeline
November 1905: The first exhibition of the Friday Club was...
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