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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | |
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... |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | DC
met certain members of the Bloomsbury Group for the first time: she attended the World's Fair at Islington with David Garnett
, Vanessa Bell
, and Duncan Grant
, among others. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989. 61 |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | When ST
's parents and Leslie Stephen
tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa
(later Bell), and Virginia
(later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL
was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands
. During the early... |
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
,... |