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In and out of Bloomsbury

Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists

Martin Ferguson Smith
Barcode 9781526171931
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Release Date: 27/06/2023

Genre: Literary Criticism
Label: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists
Illuminates Virginia Woolf and several contemporary writers and artists through new research and discoveries.

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly detective work.

Six of them focus on four pivotal members of the Bloomsbury Group – Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, and Roger Fry. Prominent ingredients of their story include art, writing, friendship, love, sex, mental illness, and Greek travel. The five ‘out of Bloomsbury’ essays are about the ‘new’ letters from the novelist Rose Macaulay to the Irish poet Katharine Tynan; the prodigious teenage talents of Dorothy L. Sayers; the remarkable story of Tolkien’s schoolmaster R. W. Reynolds; and the artist Tristram Hillier in Portugal.

The collection creates a richly varied and entertaining picture of British culture in the first half of the twentieth century.

Longlisted for the William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History 2022