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  • Location: London, Rodmell

Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision

Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision

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1881 – 1924: The art, life and times of the author Virginia Woolf

  • ISBN: 978-1855144811
  • Genre: Non-Fiction

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Woolf was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group: that union of friends who revolutionised British culture with their innovative approach to art, design and society in the early years of the twentieth century. Portraiture figured greatly in Woolfs life. Portraits by G.F. Watts and photographs made by her aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, furnished rooms in which she lived.

Written portraits were produced in the family home; her father, Leslie Stephen, published short biographies of Samuel Johnson, Pope, Swift, George Eliot and Thomas Hobbes, while editing the first twenty-six volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography. Throughout her life, Woolf, a sharp observer and a brilliant wordsmith, composed memorable vignettes-in-words of people she knew or encountered, and was herself portrayed by artists and photographers on many occasions.

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Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision

Destination:   Sussex, Rodmell, London  Author/Guide: Frances Spalding  Departure Time: 1881 – 1924

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