This beautiful book features the Charleston House and Gardens in Sussex. The house belonged to Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf . The book was written by Quentin Bell the nephew of Vanessa And Virginia Nicholson, Quentin's Daughter. The book is filled with pictures of each room, paintin...
I'm wavering between two and three stars. This was not what I expected, but really it's my mistake since Virginia Nicholson is upfront about the fact that she is primarily interested in social history on a micro level: What did the bohemians eat for lunch? What sort of clothes did they wear? How did...
Ok, so I didn't read the entire book, in fact I spent three hours dipping into each of the chapters having read the first two chapters in their entirety. Ultimately I was disappointed. The book has a few great anecdotes however my attention frequently wandered and few stories seemed particularly su...
This is a really interesting read. It details the situations faced and dealt with by the generation of women born in the UK between 1885 and 1905, those that came of age during the first world war an found themselves single due the the lack of available men. In a sense it is very sad, as a number of...
Ooops - I had been logging the episodes to another book with the same title and same subject, by Jennifer Hartley and published 1997. So was there a need for this book at all? LOL
Virginia Nicholson's true story of the generation of women left without husbands after the Great War. Read by Miriam Margolyes.
I love this book for its insight into unconventional lives and the enumeration of the ways people find to be happy, even when poor or unsuccessful in their chosen line. Most of the people mentioned are not famous for their art, but for the way they helped shift the collective mind away from the stuf...
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