Bloomsbury Recalled

by Quentin Bell

Hardcover, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

DA685.B65 B45 1995

Publication

Columbia University (1996), Edition: 0, Hardcover, 234 pages

Description

In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people among whom he came of age. Here are Bell's candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell - Virginia Woolf's sister - Vanessa's lover, Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells' country place in Sussex. The stories of this enchanting extended family, the private lives of these public figures, have all the magic and intrigue of the best novels of the day. Bloomsbury Recalled, in the expansive storytelling tradition of the early modernists, re-creates the captivating theater of events that was Bloomsbury.… (more)

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LibraryThing member Catherine.Cox
Short, personal memoir by one of the Bloomsbury 'progeny'. It is written with the assumption that you already know all the characters and have read his other biography's and writings. I knew the character sand google filled in the blanks.

Fast, interesting and very entertaining read. I will probably
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reread parts of it and plan to keep the book.
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Physical description

234 p.; 9.26 inches

ISBN

0231105649 / 9780231105644

Local notes

OCLC = 1016
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