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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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... |
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 |
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. 95 |
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. 702-3 |
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 | Lady Ottoline Morrell | |
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 | Gertrude Stein | |
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 | Ray Strachey | After her return from Bryn Mawr in 1909, Ray Costelloe (later RS
) stayed with her friend Ellie Rendel
(whose mother was an elder sister of Lytton Strachey
) at the Stracheys' home in Hampstead... |
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. 254, 255 |