![]() ![]() Bloomsbury was also important and unique in that women were treated as equals. Despite the title men are prominent in the reading This is the first I noted David “Bunny” Garnett and a few others from the group. ![]() Marsh centers her study on Virginia Woolf and even more so on Vanessa Bell. Their openness was unheard of at the time and much was done far from the prying eyes of society. Acceptance was both hetero and homosexual. ![]() It seems the group was very fluid in their sexual relationships as well as gender roles and identities. I didn’t know about Vanessa Bell and her relationship and child with Duncan Grant. I knew of Vanessa Bell because of the care she gave Virginia Woolf during her breakdowns. I also touched on Leonard Woolf’s writing and dug into Vita Sackville-West. This is a reprint of the original 1995 book by Endeavour Press.Īfter reading Virginia Woolf’s diaries and letters I thought I had everything I needed to know about the Bloomsbury Group. ![]() She is a contributor to the Dictionary of Women Artists and a frequent lecturer in Britain, North America and Japan. She has also scripted arts documentary programmes for radio and television, and has curated exhibitions of work by women painters of the PreRaphaelite movement. Marsh has written a number of ground-breaking biographies, including PreRaphaelite Sisterhood, Jane and May Morris, The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal and her highly acclaimed work, Christina Rossetti. Bloomsbury Women : Distinct Figures in Life and Art by Jan Marsh. ![]()
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