In and out of Bloomsbury : biographical essays on twentieth-century writers and artists / Martin Ferguson Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Martin Ferguson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Artists.

History.

England--London.

Artists--England--London--History--20th century.

Artists--England--London--Biography.

Bloomsbury group.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "New" portraits by Roger Fry of Helen Fry and Vanessa Bell

2. A complete strip-off: A Bloomsbury threesome in the nude at Studland

3. Clive Bell's memoir of Annie Raven-Hill (co-written with Helen Walasek)

4. "Far the best holiday for years": Virginia Woolf's second visit to Greece

5. "Suicidal mania" and flawed psychobiography: Two discussions of Virginia Woolf

6. Virginia Woolf and "the hermaphrodite": A feminist fan of Orlando and critic of Roger Fry

7. "I am afraid I am not Irish": Letters from Rose Macaulay to Katharine Tynan

8. A teenage star: The forgotten contribution of Dorothy L. Sayers to a pageant

9. "She had quite unusual gifts": Dorothy L. Sayers at school

10. The secret love-child of an American Civil War commander: The strange story of Tolkien's schoolteacher

11. "A land pre-eminently to inspire a painter": Tristram Hillier's first visit to Portugal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526157447

1526157446

OCLC:

1225287743