Bloomsbury Recalled - Softcover

Bell, Quentin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231105657 ISBN 13: 9780231105651

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The author recounts anecdotes of his parents, Vanessa and Clive Bell, his aunt, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Maynard Keynes, Anthony Blunt, and other British writers and artists

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From the Back Cover:

In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people among whom he came of age. Here are Bell's candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell - Virginia Woolf's sister - Vanessa's lover, Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells' country place in Sussex. The stories of this enchanting extended family, the private lives of these public figures, have all the magic and intrigue of the best novels of the day. Bloomsbury Recalled, in the expansive storytelling tradition of the early modernists, re-creates the captivating theater of events that was Bloomsbury.

About the Author:

The younger son of Vanesa and Clive Bell, quentin Bell was born in 1910. He is a painter, sculptor, potter, author and art critic and has been professor of fine atr at Oxford; and professor of history and theory of art at Sussex. His books includeOn Human Finery, and the highly praised two-volumeVirginia Woolf: A Biography which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and is the stadard biography of Woolf, who was his mother's sister.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0231105657
• ISBN 13: 9780231105651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256