Smith Martin Ferguson
Smith Martin Ferguson - In And Out Of Bloomsbury Biographical Essays On Twentieth - Century Writers And Artists - Hardcover
Smith Martin Ferguson - In And Out Of Bloomsbury Biographical Essays On Twentieth - Century Writers And Artists - Hardcover
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Description: These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth - century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts pictures and photographs they are notable feats of scholarly detective work. Six of them focus on four pivotal members of the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia Woolf Vanessa Bell Clive Bell and Roger Fry. Prominent ingredients of their story include art writing friendship love sex mental illness and Greek travel. The five 'out of Bloomsbury essays are about the 'new letters from the novelist Rose Macaulay to the Irish poet Katharine Tynan; the prodigious teenage talents of Dorothy L. Sayers; the remarkable story of Tolkien's schoolmaster R. W. Reynolds; and the artist Tristram Hillier in Portugal. The collection creates a richly varied and entertaining picture of British culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
Title: In And Out Of Bloomsbury Biographical Essays On Twentieth - Century Writers And Artists
Author(s): Smith Martin Ferguson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Barcode: 9781526157447
Pages: 328 Pages, 46 Colour Illustrations
Publication Date: 7/20/2021
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth - century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts pictures and photographs they are notable feats of scholarly detective work. Six of them focus on four pivotal members of the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia Woolf Vanessa Bell Clive Bell and Roger Fry. Prominent ingredients of their story include art writing friendship love sex mental illness and Greek travel. The five 'out of Bloomsbury essays are about the 'new letters from the novelist Rose Macaulay to the Irish poet Katharine Tynan; the prodigious teenage talents of Dorothy L. Sayers; the remarkable story of Tolkien's schoolmaster R. W. Reynolds; and the artist Tristram Hillier in Portugal. The collection creates a richly varied and entertaining picture of British culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
Title: In And Out Of Bloomsbury Biographical Essays On Twentieth - Century Writers And Artists
Author(s): Smith Martin Ferguson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Barcode: 9781526157447
Pages: 328 Pages, 46 Colour Illustrations
Publication Date: 7/20/2021
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
