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Leisure and Society | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
made her formal entry into society as a debutante, a change of status . . . important then for the young females of our sub-tribe. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 34 |
Leisure and Society | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
remained active into her seventies, forging friendships with newer writers such as feminist Elizabeth Robins
, and entertaining her stepnieces Virginia
and Vanessa Stephen
. Virginia used her as the model for Mrs Hilbery... |
Leisure and Society | Rosamond Lehmann | Stephen Spender
thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation. Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus. 51 |
Leisure and Society | Iris Tree | IT
was a natural bohemian. She smoked, and was one of the first girls to bob her hair (in 1913, cutting off her long plait on a train and leaving it behind on the seat)... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Viola Tree | Virginia Woolf
found that the production of this book required a lot of work in the closing stages from her as publisher. She received the (apparently corrected) proofs by 2 March in a state calculated... |
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 | |
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 |
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. 374-5, 818 |
Performance of text | Virginia Woolf | VW
's nonsense comedy, Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 86 Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 246 |
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... |
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