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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 | 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 | 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 | Lady Ottoline Morrell | |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf
, E. M. Forster
, and Lytton Strachey
, the economic theories of Maynard Keynes |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Soon after Ling Shuhua
moved to London, she and Vanessa Bell
met in person for the first time, having corresponded for about a decade. Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 302 |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | He also introduced her to both Vanessa Bell
and his maternal aunt Virginia Woolf
, who became important correspondents for her. Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 255-7 |
Friends, Associates | Iris Tree | IT
became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art
. Vanessa Bell
, Duncan Grant
, and Roger Fry
all painted portraits of her, and she wore... |