Gwen Raverat

Biographies & Memoirs

Frances Spalding

Arts & Literature

Harvill

Vanessa Bell was a central figure within the Bloomsbury Groupand lent to it a stability and coherence it might otherwise havelacked. A talented artist, she held sway with her acuity, integrityand a sense of humour. Yet she remained inscrutable, glimpsesof her life only appearing through her sister, Virginia Woolf. In this authorised biography, Frances Spalding draws upon amass of unpublished documents to reveal Vanessa Bell’s considerableachievements, in both her art and her increasingly unorthodoxlife. A sympathetic account is given of her marriage toClive Bell, her affair with Roger Fry and the complex nature ofher lasting relationship with Duncan Grant. It is a fitting tributeto a woman of great paradox, wit and honesty.

Vanessa Bell

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Papermac

Spalding reveals and explores the intimate relationship between the course of Stevie Smith's life and the evolution of her art, into which she assimilated not simply the events and emotions of her private life, but the influences on her imagination of her wide and varied reading. Photos.

Stevie Smith: A Biography

W.W.Norton

British Art Since 1900

THAMES HUDSON LTD

This is a biography of the well-known British painter, Duncan Grant. He was a central member of Bloomsbury, but he also extended far beyond it, into every level of English society. Spalding sheds light on his love affairs with Lytton Strachey and Maynard Keynes, and on his tempestuous relationship with Vanessa Bell, with whom he lived at Charleston, and had a daughter, Angelica.

Duncan Grant

Chatto & Windus 1997

Landscape in Britain, 1850-1950

Donald Davie

Monica Bohm Duchen

ian-jeffrey

Arts Council of Great Britain

438p large hardback with illustrated purple dustjacket, small tear to front endpaper, otherwise as new

Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family, and Affections

Harvill Press

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