Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
254, 255
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Pat Barker | The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art
students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor... |
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 |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Feminist literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert
responded to both Emilies in one of her poetic collections: Emily's Bread (1984), and Anne Carson
to EB
, her favourite author and main fear, which I mean to... |
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... |
politics | Dorothy Bussy | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Leonora Carrington | As she had in Paris, LC
produced new writing and visual art. She and Ernst also decorated walls, cupboard doors, and other spaces with paintings, carvings, and sculptures that produced a singular aesthetic for 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. 61 |
Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Selected by Roger Fry
, Carrington
's Tulips was shown at the Grosvenor Galleries
' Nameless Exhibition of Modern British Painting. At this exhibition, Henry Tonks
(who had supervised both Carrington and Vanessa Bell |
Publishing | Elaine Feinstein | |
Occupation | Roger Fry | After returning from New York, RF
met Vanessa
and Clive Bell
on a train from Cambridge to London, and arranged for Clive's assistance with the upcoming Post-Impressionist exhibition at the Grafton Gallery
. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 95 |
Occupation | Roger Fry | At 33 Fitzroy Square in Bloomsbury, London, founder RF
opened the Omega Workshops
, an artists' group whose participants included Wyndham Lewis
, Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant
(both co-directors), and Dora Carrington
. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 195 |
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 | 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... |
Occupation | Nina Hamnett | NH
recounts how, feeling brave one morning, she entered the post-impressionist Omega Workshops
, and asked to see Mr. [Roger] Fry. This charming man with grey hair told her, on her request for work... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | Having achieved a footing of friendship with Walter Sickert
and the others of the Fitzroy Street Group
, NH
went on through Roger Fry
and Vanessa Bell
to get to know the members of the... |