Vanessa Bell

Standard Name: Bell, Vanessa
Used Form: Vanessa Stephen

Connections

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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 Clive had a positive impact on Virginia's career, urging her to turn her...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
It continued weekly until April 1895 (the year Virginia's mother died). Two of its stories (A Cockney's Farming Experiences and The Experiences of a Paterfamilias) were published in the late twentieth century.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Residence Virginia Woolf
Virginia Stephen (later VW ) moved to 29 Fitzroy Square to live with her surviving brother, Adrian . Vanessa and Clive Bell took over the former family home at 46 Gordon Square.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
For six years from 1923, during the lifetime of Quentin and Julian Bell 's handwritten The Charleston Bulletin (on the model of their mother and aunt's Hyde Park Gate News), VW contributed Christmas supplements...
Publishing Virginia Woolf
VW published Kew Gardens at the Hogarth Press , with illustrations drawn by Vanessa Bell and done as woodcuts by Carrington ; they were printing in November 1918 and choosing paper for a cover in...
Reception Virginia Woolf
Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa , Clive Bell
Publishing Virginia Woolf
Virginia and Leonard Woolf 's Hogarth Press published her Monday or Tuesday, with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell .
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Literary responses Virginia Woolf
VW waited more than a week for comment of any kind on this publication, and was driven to dismiss her own disappointment as something she had now put behind her, writing the book off as...
Performance of text Virginia Woolf
VW 's nonsense comedy,
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Freshwater, first written in July 1923, was performed in Vanessa Bell 's studio before an audience of eighty friends.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
She travelled with Vanessa and Angelica Bell to Cambridge, where she stayed with Pernel Strachey , Principal of Newnham.
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...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Ethel Smyth sent her responses to this book by telegram on publication day: Book astounding so far. Agitatingly increases value of life. Two days later she sent: Final paragraph almost smashes machine of life with...
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...
Education Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was educated at home. As a very young girl, she was tutored by her mother in Latin, French, and history. When she was between thirteen and fifteen, her father gave her lessons for...
Residence Virginia Woolf
Because Virginia was recovering from her breakdown after her father's death, Vanessa took the primary responsibility for settling the family into their newly independent life. Virginia instead spent some time out of London, staying with...

Timeline

November 1905: The first exhibition of the Friday Club was...

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November 1905

The first exhibition of the Friday Club was held at the Alpine Club Gallery , London.

: Artist Vanessa Bell had eight works included...

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Autumn1917

Artist Vanessa Bell had eight works included in The New Movement in Art exhibition held in Birmingham and at the Mansard Gallery , London.

1924: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth...

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1924

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press published The Rector's Daughter, a novel by F. M. (or Flora Macdonald) Mayor .

1930: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant decorated the...

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1930

Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant decorated the dining-room at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, Sussex, for Lady Gerald Wellesley (the poet Dorothy Wellesley).

1932: Art historian Kenneth Clark commissioned...

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1932

Art historian Kenneth Clark commissioned from the Omega Workshops a set of dinner plates painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant bearing portrait heads of famous women, including Elizabeth I and other queens, Greta Garbo

July 1935: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were painting...

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July 1935

Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were painting wall-panels for a new Cunard transatlantic liner, the Queen Mary.

Texts

Lee, Hermione et al. “Foreword”. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper, edited by Gill Lowe and Gill Lowe, Hesperus Press, 2005, p. vii - x.
Woolf, Virginia et al. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper. Editor Lowe, Gill, Hesperus, 2005.
Woolf, Virginia et al. “Introduction”. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper, edited by Gill Lowe, Hesperus Press, 2005, p. xi - xviii.
Woolf, Virginia, and Vanessa Bell. Kew Gardens. Hogarth Press, 1919.
Woolf, Virginia, and Vanessa Bell. Monday or Tuesday. Hogarth Press, 1921.