Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell
, VW
's younger nephew, many years later became his aunt's biographer and editor. In a preface to a general-interest booklet, he wrote that among his fairly large collection of aunts and uncles... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell
writes that Stephen saw himself as a skinless man, so nothing was to touch him save [Julia's] soothing and healing hand. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols. 1: 38 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | 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
,... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Their friends included in Newcastle Quentin
and Anne Olivier Bell
, Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 228, 230-1 Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 208, 252 |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | The artists came together at this time: Bell
and Duncan Grant
added small pieces to LS's friendship scroll, and LS painted some of Quentin Bell
's ceramics. LS briefly met Arthur Waley
via Vanessa Bell |
Intertextuality and Influence | Virginia Woolf | Many habitual admirers of VW
(often those who respected her rationally socialist and feminist views) could not stomach this book—either rejecting as whimsy the framework of three fund-raisers each soliciting a guinea, or jibbing at... |
Leisure and Society | E. B. C. Jones | EBCJ
had many friends among the Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf
hovered between liking and disliking, feeling she could never become intimate with Topsy but welcoming the spruce shining mind. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols. 2: 156 |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | 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 |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Her nephew Quentin Bell
felt that the recording did not accurately capture the quality of her voice. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 6: 108n2 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Bowen | When she was dying of lung cancer in early 1972, EB
took to hospital with her an entry for the Duff Cooper Award for biography, for which she was one of the judges. She voted... |
politics | Dorothy Bussy | DB
and her daughter Janie were active anti-Fascists during World War II, though their specific activities and affiliations are unclear. In November 1944 Vanessa Bell
wrote to Molly MacCarthy
about some of the Bussys' work... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | The first study of VW
was that of Winifred Holtby
in October 1932. Those future writers who did work on VW
during their student days have included Mary Lavin
and Michèle Barrett
. In 1992... |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | This series of publications, begun with Between the Acts, represented Leonard's careful, deliberate campaign to keep Virginia Woolf in the public's eye. He arranged to spread publication over a number of years, to put... |