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.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
4: 156
While not...
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)...
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Rosamond Lehmann
Stephen Spender
thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation.
qtd. in
Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
51
Among the several artists who portrayed her (Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant
in paint, Cecil Beaton
in photographs), her husband...
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995.
195
Residence
Virginia Woolf
Virginia was keen to regain access to the amenities of London—music, the British Museum
, social life (her delight in parties, she wrote, was a piece of jewellery I inherit from my mother)
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
Carrington took on other work for the Press
: she designed numerous paper book covers with linoleum cuts (because easier to work with and less expensive than wood); in 1921 she created the cover (with...