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The world of Bloomsbury is one of pictures and people; it is an artistic and literary style, and also a group of original and creative individuals whose lives have long fascinated the public imagination. Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Katherine Mansfield, Angelica Garnett: many exceptional women were associated with Bloomsbury. Their writings, letters, diaries, and memoirs provide vivid accounts of friendship, love, art, jealousy, suicide, gossip, and day-to-day affairs over forty years. The men, too, were exceptional artists and writers whose works and words intimately depict Bloomsbury women. Jan Marsh brings a new approach to the group and its female protagonists tracing the Bloomsbury group from its beginnings in the early twentieth century to the old age of its founders and the legacy that lives on. Illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white archive material, "Bloomsbury Women" presents portrait studies, decorative images, line drawings, and photographs that complement the textual narratives of the lives, loves, art, and ideas of an extraordinary group of friends.
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Pat Pippin
reviewed Bloomsbury women on August 08, 2016
Bloomsbury women
'Bloomsbury Women - Distinct Figures in Life and Art' by Jan Marsh
3 stars/ 6 out of 10
This is a re-publication by Endeavour Press, with the original edition having been published by Pavilion Books in 1995.
I was interested in reading this book, since I have recently been reading about Vita Sackville-West.
Although the book is entitled 'Bloomsbury Women', it also contains a lot of information about 'Bloomsbury Men', with all of their stories intertwined.. I would have preferred there to have been more of a specific concentration on each of the 4 women of the cover photograph.
I very much enjoyed the Foreward by Frances Partridge. There is plenty of information in this book, and some new things to learn relating to many aspects of the Bloomsbury Set's lives. The most interesting section for me was about Dora Carrington. I was interested in the section relating to Katherine Mansfield, who, according to this book, had a better relationship with Virginia Woolf than I had previously understood.
The book is dated in some ways in the language it uses, and I wish that there had been detailed reference notes. However, it is well worth a read, and I am glad that, by being republished, it is available to a new audience.
Thank you to Endeavour Press and to NetGalley for an ARC.
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