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Living in squares, loving in triangles : the lives and loves of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
- Title
- Living in squares, loving in triangles : the lives and loves of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group / Amy Licence.
- Author
- Licence, Amy
- Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-7930 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- The lives of the sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf have long been celebrated for their central roles in the development of modernism in art and literature. Inspired by European Post-Impressionism, Vanessa's experimental work places her at the vanguard of early twentieth-century art, as does her role in helping introduce many key names - Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso - to an unsuspecting public in 1910. Virginia took these artistic innovations and applied them to literature, pushing the boundaries of form, narrative and language to find a voice uniquely her own. Yet their private lives were just as experimental. Forming the core of the Bloomsbury Group, they welcomed into their London and Sussex homes a host of their talented peers and followed their hearts in the pursuit of love. Vanessa's marriage to art critic Clive Bell was shaken early on by his flirtation with her sister, but this allowed her to find happiness with fellow artist Roger Fry. It was the predominantly homosexual Duncan Grant, though, who would become her lifelong partner, as they shared and decorated their home, Charleston, making it a living showpiece for their art. Virginia's marriage to Leonard Woolf placed him more in the role of carer than husband, with the pair abstaining from sex and living under a regime designed to meet the needs of Virginia's fragile mental health. Her meeting with the aristocratic Vita Sackville-West and their lesbian affair led Virginia to write one of the masterpieces of modern literature. What led the sisters to make such choices? How did they reconcile life and art? How did it feel, in early modern Britain, to live outside the social box? The sisters lived bravely, passionately and innovatively; where did this strength and talent come from?
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7930
- ISBN
- 9781445645759
- 1445645750
- LCCN
- 2015452766
- OCLC
- 915331084
- Author
- Licence, Amy, author.
- Title
- Living in squares, loving in triangles : the lives and loves of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group / Amy Licence.
- Publisher
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7930