Vanessa Bell

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

Stephen Spender thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation.Among the several artists who portrayed her (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in paint, Cecil Beaton in photographs), her husband...

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...

Ling Shuhua began corresponding with Vanessa Bell shortly after the death of Julian Bell , Ling Shuhua's former lover and Vanessa Bell's son.

Soon after Ling Shuhua moved to London, she and Vanessa Bell met in person for the first time, having corresponded for about a decade.

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...

He also introduced her to both Vanessa Bell and his maternal aunt Virginia Woolf , who became important correspondents for her.

Like her exchanges with Vanessa Bell , LS's letters to and from Woolf included reflections about their personal lives and their larger literary and political worlds. She sought Woolf's guidance: Will you allow me to...

The artists came together at this time: Bell and Duncan Grant added small pieces to LS's friendship scroll, and LS painted some of Quentin Bell 's ceramics. LS briefly met Arthur Waley via Vanessa Bell

Through her relationship with Julian Bell, LS forged working friendships with Virginia and Leonard Woolf , Vanessa Bell , and Vita Sackville-West .

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...

Marjorie Strachey , one of several people in LS's writing life whom she met via Vanessa Bell , provided editorial assistance.

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...

On top of this, FMM also gives a lively caricature, a scathing portrait of literary society, especially the Friday Club , the embryonic Bloomsbury [Group] founded by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell ...

Karin Costelloe later married Adrian Stephen , and thus became the sister-in-law of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell .