Laurence, Patricia Ondek. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | Julian Bell
arrived at Wuhan University
in the city of Wuhan, China, where he soon met and began a romantic relationship with Ling Shuhua
. Laurence, Patricia Ondek. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 7 Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 244 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | Chen Xiaoying
did not have a close relationship with her mother but travelled frequently with both parents. After their deaths, she defended their posthumous reputations following the publication of a novel about LS's relationship with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | The intensity of their relationship is clear not only in Julian Bell
's accounts of his feelings but also his remarks in letters about her suicide threats when they discussed ending their affair and the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
learned of the death of her nephew Julian Bell
, who had gone to serve in the Spanish Civil War and was killed by a shell fragment while driving his ambulance in Spain on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | |
Fictionalization | Ling Shuhua | Chen Xiaoying
, Ling Shuhua
's daughter, brought a successful libel case against expatriate Chinese author Hong Ying
that ensured the suppression of the latter's novel K: The Art of Love, a loose fictionalization... |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Ling Shuhua
began corresponding with Vanessa Bell
shortly after the death of Julian Bell
, Ling Shuhua's former lover and Vanessa Bell's son. Laurence, Patricia Ondek. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 235-7 |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Ling Shuhua
began corresponding with Virginia Woolf
, inspired by her reading of A Room of One's Own and her intimate relationship with Woolf's late nephew Julian Bell
during his time in China. Laurence, Patricia Ondek. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 253 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | 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
,... |
Friends, Associates | Kathleen Raine | KR
felt she was an outsider at Cambridge because she did not come from the upper or upper-middle classes, and because many of her friends there were also outsiders for various reasons. However, they did... |
Occupation | Kathleen Raine | Julian Bell
recommended during the 1930s that the Hogarth Press
should take KR
on as an employee, but they did not follow his advice. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 5: 245 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be... |
Reception | Ling Shuhua | The novel's title is a clear allusion to Peter Stansky
's account of the couple' affair in his biography of Bell
, where Stansky identifies some of Bell
's lovers via letters of the alphabet... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | Woolf's attitude to this honour (which, however, was unusual in that she did not decline it) remained deprecating and satirical. She called it the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 3: 479 |
Textual Production | Ling Shuhua | LS and Julian Bell
translated and edited several of her stories during their romantic relationship in the mid-1930s, when Bell lived in China. At least one, Writing a Letter, went unpublished. Bell
sent... |
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