Bloomsbury

Quentin BELL

Literature & Fiction

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Lady Mary Brandon devoted her life to preventive medicine and the women's movement, but a falsified death certificate triggers an investigation, uncovering fraud and corruption in the heart of the British upper classes

The Brandon Papers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

TRIAD BOOKS

This official illustrated guide looks at Charleston farmhouse in Sussex, the country retreat of the Bloomsbury circle. It was home to Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant - for over 50 years they covered walls, furniture and ceramics with their own decorations, forming a unique collection. Frequent visitors to the house include Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. Angelica Garnett explains her part in the restoration of the property; Quentin Bell recollects the garden; and Henrietta Garnett's memoir of her grandmother gives an impression of life amony the Bloomsbury Group.

Charleston: Past & present (Lives and letters)

The Hogarth Press Ltd.

These are pen portraits of the author's "elders and betters", his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell, his uncle and aunt, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and others in their circle, Duncan Grant, David Garnett, Roger Fry, and Ottoline Morrell. Bell also tells of his own varied life and art.

Elders And Betters

Biographies & Memoirs

Random House]

Looks at why people wear the clothes that they do and what makes fashion change. The book is a personal view of fashion over the centuries, confounding established theories, and interspersed with anecdote. Other work by the author includes "The Schools of Design" and "Victorian Artists".

On Human Finery

Arts & Photography

Decorative Arts & Design

Allison Busby

Set in the heart of the Sussex downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style. When painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Vanessa's two children and Duncan's friend David Garnett moved there in 1916, they took on an old building and overgrown garden ripe for transformation. Undaunted by the lack of creature comforts, Duncan and Vanessa set about obliterating the awful wallpaper they found with paint and stencils and decorating the furniture they bought in junk shops. The result was a series of unique interiors that formed a backdrop for decades of Bloomsbury artistic and literary activity, which only drew to a close with Duncan's death in 1978. Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden celebrates the artistic talents, wit and originality of those who lived at Charleston. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virginia Nicholson tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited as guests. Frequent visitors included Vanessa's sister, Virginia Woolf, who lived only four miles away; the writer Lytton Strachey; the economist Maynard Keynes, who stayed so long he had a room permanently set aside for him; and the art critic Roger Fry, who designed the curious fireplaces and a new studio. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney's atmospheric photographs, featuring entire rooms, specific decorative details, paintings and sculptures. Pictures from Vanessa's family album convey the flavor of the household in its heyday, while some of the many canvases painted there attest to the importance of Charleston as a source of inspiration.

Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden

Virginia Nicholson

History & Criticism

Henry Holt Company

Quentin Bell, author of the biography of Virginia Woolf, sets out to discover why people wear the clothes they do. He probes the essense of fashion, seeking to find the forces that drive it and keep it changing. He presents a theory of what makes "taste."

Schocken Books

The group of painters and writers who lived around Bloomsbury in the 1920s and '30s were without doubt the artistic leaders of their time. This book gives a scholarly and critical survey of the ideas and people that have had such a lasting impact on our cultural life.

Bloomsbury (Phoenix Giants)

Phoenix Giant

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Bloomsbury

The Brandon Papers

Charleston: Past & present (Lives and letters)

Elders And Betters

On Human Finery

Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden

On Human Finery

Bloomsbury (Phoenix Giants)