A Bloomsbury ramble
Nan Quick is on the trail of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, retracing the footsteps of the famous sisters in the Weald of East Sussex

https://lucire.com/2025/0803vo0.shtml #EastSussex #England #UK #VanessaBell #VirginiaWoolf #BloomsburyGroup #BloomsburySet #history #travel #Volante

‘Nothing stopped her’: the 136 reasons why Vanessa Bell is breaking free of Bloomsbury

She was the overshadowed member of the iconic group. But now, with a major exhibition not far from the house she turned into a work of art, Bell is finally getting her due. And she’s not the only one

The Guardian
Charleston Farmhouse, July 2023

Starting with website link: this tells you all you need to know. For a while I had thought Charleston was somewhere we should visit. In my head I imagined it was a sunny day. I pre-booked the ticke…

Social Mediable
The Reluctant Muse…

Charlotte Clark

"Who Are the 10 Key Members of the Bloomsbury Group?"

The Bloomsbury Group was an English group formed by freewheeling artists, philosophers, and intellectuals. Here are the major members.

#Culture #Literature #Bloomsbury #EnglishLiterature #VirginiaWoolf #VanessaBell

https://www.thecollector.com/who-are-the-major-members-of-the-bloomsbury-group/

Who Are the 10 Key Members of the Bloomsbury Group?

The Bloomsbury Group was an English group formed by freewheeling artists, philosophers, and intellectuals. Here are the major members.

TheCollector
Reading about the Charleston Trust, where Virgina Woolf lived with #VanessaBell, and #DuncanGrant. Did you know they made a dinner service of famous women plates 1932-34? Here's a link and some pics
https://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-7/famous-women Incredible collection and reminiscent of Judy Chicago's the Dinner Party
‘Abstract Painting‘, Vanessa Bell, c.1914 | Tate

‘Abstract Painting’, Vanessa Bell, c.1914

Tate
‘Nude‘, Vanessa Bell, c.1922–3 | Tate

‘Nude’, Vanessa Bell, c.1922–3

Tate
I love that you see two sides of her personality here: bored and acquiescent on the left, defiant on the right.
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RT @BeyondBloomsb
Portrait of Dora Morris by #bloomsburygroup artist #vanessabell, Oil on Canvas, c. 1937 (Photo Credit: Leeds Art Gallery). Free monthly biographies at http://beyondbloomsbury.substack.com ♥️
https://twitter.com/BeyondBloomsb/status/1590061178319163392
Beyond Bloomsbury

Biographies on the Bloomsbury artists and writers and their Edwardian to WWII contemporaries. Click to read Beyond Bloomsbury, by Victoria K. Walker, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.