Vanessa Bell

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...

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...

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...

She had the dining room at Penns decorated by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant . They did three big wall panels each, plus designing furniture. The work was finished in 1931. While not...

AWE made her formal entry into society as a debutante, a change of status . . . important then for the young females of our sub-tribe. For herself and Edith Sitwell (debs at...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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

IT became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art . Vanessa Bell , Duncan Grant , and Roger Fry all painted portraits of her, and she wore...

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...

Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...

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.

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