Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 316 Seiten)
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Edition:
1. published 2021
ISBN:
9781526157454
Content:
The book contains eleven essays, with an introduction and index. Six of the essays focus chiefly on four pivotal members of the influential “Bloomsbury Group” – the artists Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell, the art critic Clive Bell, and the writer Virginia Woolf. Significant new light is shed on them, partly through the presentation of previously unpublished pictures, photographs, and texts, partly through the fresh examination of relevant manuscripts and images. At the same time the life and work of Fry’s wife, the artist Helen Coombe, and her feminist friend the suffragette-supporting inspector of prisons Mary Louisa Gordon, who were never “Bloomsberries”, receive close attention. The five non-Bloomsbury essays too are based on primary source-materials, including previously unpublished texts and images. The first presents thirteen letters from the British writer Rose Macaulay to the Irish poet and novelist Katharine Tynan. It is followed by two essays about the prodigious teenage talents and achievements of Dorothy L. Sayers, destined for fame as a detective novelist and religious writer. The penultimate piece is about the exotic origin and eventful life of Richard Williams Reynolds, who taught J. R. R. Tolkien at school; and the last illuminates the artist Tristram Hillier and especially the personally and professionally important first visit he made to Portugal in 1947. The collection combines homogeneity and variety, and this combination contributes to a rich and balanced picture of the cultural scene in the first half of the twentieth century.
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781526157447
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Smith, Martin Ferguson, 1940 - In and out of Bloomsbury Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781526157447
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Bloomsbury group
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Biografie
DOI:
10.7765/9781526157454
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