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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
Education | Margaret Legge | The facts that she writes about art students, and that she attended the memorial service for art professor Henry Tonks
on 15 January 1937, suggest that she may—like the somewhat younger Berta Ruck
, Gwen John |
Education | Virginia Woolf | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | The eldest of Julia's children from her first marriage, George Duckworth
(1868-1934), was ten when his mother married VW
's father. He grew into a conservative young man and a social climber. After Julia's death... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | His position, teaching modern literature at the university, was made possible by his friend Margery Fry
's connections and sponsored by the Boxer Indemnity Fund
. His relationship with LS began quickly: in a 22... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Roger Fry | In April 1911, Fry's personal relationship with the Bells began to change: a trip to Constantinople marked the start of a love affair between Fry and Vanessa Bell
. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 95 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | David married twice and had four children by the time of his mother's death. His first wife, Ray Garnett
, was an artist and illustrator. His second wife, Angelica Bell
, was the daughter of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | As when her brother Thoby
died in 1906, Virginia became a source of strength during the family crisis, concentrating especially on the needs of her bereaved sister, Vanessa Bell
. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 702-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's sister, Vanessa
, married art critic Clive Bell
at St Pancras Registry Office in London. Lyndall Gordon
maintains that |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened... |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | SB
met Lord David Cecil
at a dinner with Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, after which they all went on to Clive
and Vanessa Bell
's house. Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan, 1987. 254, 255 |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | Karin Costelloe
later married Adrian Stephen
, and thus became the sister-in-law of Virginia Woolf
and Vanessa Bell
. |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Bussy | 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... |