qtd. in
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
145
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Education | Roger Fry | At Cambridge, Fry became friends with Thoby Stephen
, Clive Bell
, and Leonard Woolf
; he later joined them and others as an original member of the Bloomsbury Group
. |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Nevertheless, Virginia continued to feel her educational isolation, especially after her brother Thoby had gone up to Cambridge. Theres nothing like talk as an educator I'm sure, she wrote to him. qtd. in Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 145 In handwriting Woolf... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge
friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen
and a member of the Apostles
. A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Brett | Brett moved in various distinct social circles. Augustus John
was an admired acquaintance. Virginia Woolf
, a friend, nevertheless commented in 1921 on Brett being one of the entourage of Lady Ottoline Morrell
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Thoby Stephen
, VW
's brother, started Thursday Evenings at 46 Gordon Square, mainly so that he could keep in touch with his Cambridge University
friends. These gatherings marked the beginning of what came... |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, qtd. in Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row, 1974. 105 |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | The group's founders emphasised exchanges between Asian and British literary cultures; they named it after Rabindrath Tagore
's prose-poem collection The Crescent Moon (1903), after they brought Tagore
to Beijing via the Society for Lectures on the New Learning |
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... |
Literary responses | Arnold Bennett | AB
's reviews, combined with his visibly privileged lifestyle, did not help his reputation among younger writers (such as those in the Bloomsbury Group
) as a wealthy snob or a philistine. Wyndham Lewis
attacked... |
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... |
Author summary | Ling Shuhua | A writer and visual artist active primarily between the 1920s and 1950s, LS published short stories, essays, translations, and a memoir whose reception was shaped by frequently restrictive expectations for women writers of her time... |
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