Vanessa Bell

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)...

Since there were few Black women artists in the Tate collections, MS decided to focus on women artists in general. The exhibition included paintings by Gwen John and Vanessa Bell .

After her return from Bryn Mawr in 1909, Ray Costelloe (later RS ) stayed with her friend Ellie Rendel (whose mother was an elder sister of Lytton Strachey ) at the Stracheys' home in Hampstead...

It was John Lane and Roger Fry who introduced them to the Bloomsbury circle. The trip did not result in a publishing contract, as GS had hoped, but it did advance her reputation. The next...

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...

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

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...

Shortly thereafter, however, Fry fell in love with Vanessa Bell and denied any commitment to LOM , while at the same time speaking hurtfully of her relationship with Russell and of her character in general...

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

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 ...

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...

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 .