Vanessa Bell

by Spalding, Frances

• ISBN13: 9780752440330
• ISBN10: 0752440330
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Tempus

Summary

Vanessa Bell was a central figure within the Bloomsbury Group and lent to it a stability and coherence it might otherwise have lacked. A talented artist, she held sway with her acuity, integrity and a sense of humour. Yet she remained inscrutable, glimpses of her life only appearing through her sister, Virginia Woolf. In this authorised biography, Frances Spalding draws upon a mass of unpublished documents to reveal Vanessa Bell's considerable achievements, in both her art and her increasingly unorthodox life. A sympathetic account is given of her marriage to Clive Bell, her affair with Roger Fry and the complex nature of her lasting relationship with Duncan Grant. It is a fitting tribute to a woman of great paradox, wit and honesty.

Author Biography

Frances Spalding read art history at the University of Nottingham and lectured on the subject for ten years before becoming a freelance art historian and biographer. She is currently editor of the Charleston Magazine.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. 6
Acknowledgements	p. 7
Preface	p. 9
Preface to the New Edition	p. 12
Always the Eldest 1879-1895	p. 14
Mrs Young's Evening Dress 1895-1904	p. 26
Changing Places 1904-1906	p. 46
Mr and Mrs Clive Bell 1907-1909	p. 65
Petticoats over Windmills 1910-1912	p. 83
Asheham 1912-1914	p. 110
Granite and Rainbow 1914-1916	p. 132
One Among Three 1916-1918	p. 153
At Home and Abroad 1919-1926	p. 171
Charleston in France 1927-1930	p. 203
High Yellow 1930-1934	p. 227
Between Bloomsbury and China 1935-1937	p. 250
Bitter Odds 1937-1945	p. 281
The Attic Studio 1945-1961	p. 306
Notes	p. 337
List of Illustrations	p. 345
Index	p. 346
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