"Angelica Garnett, Writer of Frank Memoir of Bloomsbury Childhood, Dies at 93"
Angelica Garnett was the daughter of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and the author of Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood, which you can read more about here.
Virginia Woolf outside a summerhouse with her house guests, economist Maynard Keynes (right) and Angelica Bell, Vanessa Bell and Clive Bell.
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At any rate, talk we all did, it’s true, till all hours of the night. Not always, of course, about the meaning of good - sometimes about books or painting or anything that occurred to one - or told the company of one’s daily doings and adventures. There was nothing at all unusual about it perhaps, except that for some reason we seemed to be a company of the young, all free, all beginning life in new surroundings, without elders to whom we had to account in any way for our doings or behaviour, and this was not then common in a mixed company of our class: for classes still existed.Vanessa Bell, “Notes On Bloomsbury,” 1951.
Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, c. 1915. National Galleries of Scotland.
To The Lighthouse was published on the 5th May 1927. Here is a picture of Virginia Woolf looking impossibly glamorous with Lytton Strachey.
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Signed and typed note to Frances Hooper from Leonard Woolf, written after she purchased drafts of Virginia Woolf’s short story “The Searchlight,” 1944. (Frances Hooper Papers, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.)
Julia Stephen at the Bear, Grindelwald, Switzerland, 1889, taken by Gabriel Loppé. (Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.)
This was Vanessa Bell’s favorite photograph of her mother.
This cd has a bunch of really awesome recordings. Mostly Bloomsbury members, but also recordings of Nellie Boxall, Lottie Hope & Louie Mayer. They were all cooks for the Woolfs at some point or another, and, as the years went by, became regular characters in Woolf’s diaries.
Louie Mayer worked for the Woolfs from 1934 until 1969 when Leonard Woolf died. Here she gives a moving account of the day Virginia Woolf committed suicide.
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Lots of re-blogging lately because I am graduating college in a few weeks and life is hectic…more original posts will come with summer, and I will stop piggy-backing on so many of the other great VW posts out there…THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. (COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES). Signed. London: The Hogarth Press, 1975-1980. First Editions.
