Author

Contributions

  • Bloomsbury Artists. - Contributor
  • Bloomsbury Authors. - Contributor

Publication

1990 - J. Cape, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

84,500 words, Guess

Page Count

338 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Numbergb90042146
  • Goodreads1318883
  • LibraryThing389675

Classifications

  • LCCND497.B44

Description

This is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The influence they exerted over each others lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and also their intense rivalry is explored here with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkably artistic women who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group is revealed with all its intricacies in this moving biography.

Description

This volume recounts the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters -- English writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and English painter and interior designer Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). The author explores the influence they exerted over each other's lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and also their intense rivalry. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkably artistic women who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group is revealed with all its intricacies. The two sisters' childhood was blighted by tragedy and trauma and their early lives were subject to the frustrations that were common to the women of Victorian and Edwardian England. The author argues that their subsequent successes as writer and artist owed much to this mutual enrichment.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography.

Other Editions

  • A very close conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia WoolfJ. Cape1990-01-01

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