Quentin Bell

Quentin Bell writes that Stephen saw himself as a skinless man, so nothing was to touch him save [Julia's] soothing and healing hand. Julia's children felt that he wore her out with his...

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...

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...

Their friends included in Newcastle Quentin and Anne Olivier Bell , while in London they entertained T. S. Eliot , Rosamond Lehmann , and Stephen Spender , among others.

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

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 ,...

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...

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. She was close...

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

Her nephew Quentin Bell felt that the recording did not accurately capture the quality of her voice. But critic Patricia Clements wrote decades later that the voice, with wide musical range and changing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 1972 CS spent three painful months over a commission to review Quentin Bell 's life of Virginia Woolf . She found many aspects and supposed aspects of Woolf repugnant: her alleged lack of appreciation...