Vanessa Bell

Standard Name: Bell, Vanessa
Used Form: Vanessa Stephen

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Reception Ling Shuhua
LS's memoir is at the centre of her body of writing. From the start of her exchanges with Bell and Woolf , LS sent them drafts of it, written in English. She conveyed her appreciation...
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...
Publishing Ethel Smyth
In 1934 Vanessa Bell did the decor for Fête Galante, of which Smyth sent Woolf the synopsis in autumn 1932, when she was trying to get it performed. She conducted its score at Queen's...
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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Publishing Viola Tree
Michael Burn wrote an introduction for this book, and VT 's half-uncle Max Beerbohm wrote a letter which served as prefatory material. The book draws on a scrapbook or commonplace-book kept by Parsons: hence its...
Publishing Elaine Feinstein
EF issued through her new publisher, Carcanet , her Selected Poems, taken from her eleven previous poetry volumes. The cover features a painting by Vanessa Bell .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma.
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Publishing Susan Tweedsmuir
The title is that of a tune by Charles Gounod , composed in 1872 (and more recently associated with the name of Alfred Hitchcock ). ST submitted the manuscript by 19 November 1934.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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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...
politics Virginia Woolf
The event was organized in part by Pippa Strachey ; other guests included Vanessa Bell , Cicely Hamilton , Laura Knight , Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson , and T. S. Eliot . Here Woolf...
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.
2: 246
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...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
VW was especially pleased with her new ability to publish her own texts. She later observed: I'm the only woman in England free to write what I like.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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The Press also allowed for...
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 Virginia Woolf
In October 1928 VW addressed in turn the students of the two Cambridge women's colleges: first Newnham , then Girton . She developed these lectures on women and writing into A Room of One's Own...
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.
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