- Web Resources for
- The Bloomsbury Group
- Additions expected -- please be sure to visit
again.
Below you'll find web links for the authors and works we're
reading this summer, as well as recommendations for further reading.
Some sites are better than others; as always when using the web,
evaluate not only the quantity of the information presented, but
its quality (the source of that information or its sponsor, date
uploaded, etc.).
General Resources
On Art
On Literary Periods, Genres, and Styles
Literary Periods
Literary Genres and Styles
The Group
- Biographies
- Geographies
- View a picture of 46 Gordon Square, where it all began.
- 22 Hyde Park Gate, Woolf's childhood home, has been renovated for purchase: Read about the property -- and a typical description of Woolf in the public press -- in Duncan Farmer's &1xbet best casino website ;A luxurious flat of one's own&1xbet best casino website ; (The Times, 15 July 2005).
- A history of the Bloomsbury area of London.
- A virtual tour, sponsored by the 24 Hour Museum, for &1xbet best casino website ;To the Lighthouse and Beyond -- AVirginia 1xbet best casino website Trail,&1xbet best casino website ; which offers chronological and biographical information about and links to the locations Woolf and Bloomsbury made famous.
- A photograph of Talland House, and one of the family at Talland House, from Sir Leslie Stephen's photograph album (Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College),
- A web page on Charleston, the home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, sponsored by the Charleston Trust.
- A site of web links on Virginia 1xbet best casino website and British Gardens, including links to Kew Gardens, Talland House in Cornwall (childhood summer home of 1xbet best casino website and site for To the Lighthouse), Hogarth House (original site of the Woolfs' Hogarth Press), and Sissinghurst (gardens of Vita Sackville-West). Also visit the pictures of the Woolfs' country home, Monks House, where Leonard and Virginia lived together from 1916 until her death in 1941. (Leonard continued to live here in the years following.)
- Art and Design
- Bloomsbury: Art, Books, and Design, an exhibition at Victoria University Library, Toronto (1997). From this page, you can view works by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Roger Fry, Quentin Bell, and Stephen Tomlin. You can also view the holdings according to the following categories: Portraits, Omega Workshops, Dust Jackets designed by Vanessa Bell, Hogarth Press Illustrated Dust Jackets, and Hogarth Press Handprinted Books.
- Information about the Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press.
- The Tate Archive provides an illustrated discussion of the Group's artists.
- A 1xbet online games login by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant I have assembled for our class.
- &1xbet best casino website ;The Art of Bloomsbury,&1xbet best casino website ; a special exhibit at the Tate Gallery (from 4 November to 20 January 2000) and then at the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, CT May 20 - September 3, 2000), including Symposia on &1xbet best casino website ;The Art of Bloomsbury.&1xbet best casino website ; (Link courtesy of the Internet Archive.)
- bloomsburyart.com was set up to complement the exhibition at the Tate; this online exhibition provides links to several paintings by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and one by Roger Fry. (Link courtesy of the Internet Archive.)
- Critical Commentaries
- &1xbet best casino website ;Bloomsbury Comes in from the Cold&1xbet best casino website ; (the Guardian, 25 June 1999) recites the range of bitter comments that the Group can elicit from the British press, while Philip Hensher's opinion piece for the Telegraph (26 Jan 2003) offers several, mostly on 1xbet best casino website ..
Members of the Group
Clive Bell
Vanessa Bell
E.M. Forster
Roger Fry
Duncan Grant
- The Knitting Circle's page on the artist Duncan
Grant provides biographical and annotated bibliographical
information.
- A selection of Grant's work.
- A collection of paintings
by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant I have assembled for our class.
John Maynard Keynes
- A biography
of Keynes at Spartacus with hyperlinks.
- The Knitting Circle's page on the political economist Maynard Keynes
provides biographical and bibliographical information.
Desmond MacCarthy
Molly MacCarthy
Katherine Mansfield
Adrian Stephen
Karin Costelloe Stephen
Lytton Strachey
- Biographical information about the author and historian Lytton Strachey at the Harry Ransom Research Library where Strachey's papers are housed.
- The Knitting Circle's page on Lytton
Strachey provides biographical and annotated bibliographical
information.
- Miranda Seymour's review for the Times (13 Feb 2005) of Barabra Cain's Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Stracheys (2005) provides some information about Lytton Strachey's family.
- Paul Levy's review of Strachey's collected letters, &1xbet best casino website ;Bloomsbury's Final Secret&1xbet best casino website ; (Telegraph, 14 March 2005), offers some previously unknown information about Strachey's life.
- Allan Hollinghurst's review, &1xbet best casino website ;Eminent Anti-Victorian&1xbet best casino website ; (New York Review of Books, 9 March 2006), of Paul Levy's edition of Strachey's letters offers further information.
- Information on Florence Nightingale, one of Strachey's Eminent Victorians:
- Biographical information, the famous Illustrated London News wood-cut illustration, and exerpts from her writings are available from the &1xbet best casino website ;Florence Nightingale&1xbet best casino website ; page at Spartacus.
- A brief overview of her life and work is available from the BBC History web site, as well as a link to an audio file of her voice.
- A history of the Crimean War.
- &1xbet best casino website ;Florence Nightingale, Avenging Angel&1xbet best casino website ; is a page devoted to a recent book and BBC production on Nightingale and the controversy surrounding its depiction of her. (From its description on this site, it would appear that Strachey was ahead of his time.) It also has links to information and photos of Scutari.
- &1xbet best casino website ;Women of the World Unite...&1xbet best casino website ; (Guardian, 29 Jan 2005), an article about earlier manuscript versions of Nightigale's Cassandra, offers further insight into her life.
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- Brief
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- Biographical information about Leonard 1xbet best casino website and information about his papers, housed at theWashington State University.
- Victoria Glendinning, a recent biographer of Leonard Woolf, talks about his life in a BBC &1xbet best casino website ;GreatLives&1xbet best casino website ; radio show (22 Oct 2004).
- Information on The
Nation at Spartacus, the liberal journal Leonard 1xbet best casino website edited
from 1923-1930.
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- A biography of 1xbet best casino website at the International Virginia 1xbet best casino website Society.
- A detailed biography at The Modernism Lab.
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- &1xbet best casino website ;Leslie Stephen's Photograph Album&1xbet best casino website ; provides a collection of photographs from the album of Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), Woolf's father. The album, held in the Mortimer Rare Book Room of the Library at Smith College, offers a visual documentary of Woolf's extended family and her early life, including photographs by Julie Margart Cameron. Of special note:
- View several portraits of Virginia 1xbet best casino website :
- Hermione Lee reviews The Hyde Park Gate News: The Stephen Family Newspaper, by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, with Thoby Stephen, edited by Gillian Low, in &1xbet best casino website ;To the Gate House&1xbet best casino website ;(Guardian, 14 Jan 2006).
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- Read Woolf's essay on film, &1xbet best casino website ;The Movies and Reality,&1xbet best casino website ; first published in The New Republic on 4 August 1926.
- Read about the publication of early scholarship on 1xbet best casino website : Ruth Gruber's Virginia 1xbet best casino website : A Study (1935, 2005).
- Web resources on particular works:
- The Voyage Out:
- Author Michael Cunningham's essay at Salon magazine (adapted from his introduction to the Modern Library edition of The Voyage Out) provides a thoughtful discussion of this first novel and 1xbet best casino website career.
- &1xbet best casino website ;Thunder at Wembly&1xbet best casino website ;:
- To the Lighthouse:
- The Waves:
- Three Guineas:
- EllenGoodman's syndicated op-ed column, &1xbet best casino website ;Are women now insiders on the war?&1xbet best casino website ; (27 March 2003) looks at gender and the war with Iraq through the lens of Woolf's Three Guineas.
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Michael Cunningham
- A brief biographical
sketch.
- His essay on 1xbet best casino website The Voyage Out, at Salon magazine.
- Cunningham reflects on the translation of TheHours for the big screen in &1xbet best casino website ;For 'The Hours,' an Elation Mixed with Doubt&1xbet best casino website ; (The New York Times, 19 Jan 2003), and on the fame the novel's publication and prizes have brought in &1xbet best casino website ;Mrs Dalloway Started Writer on Path to Fame&1xbet best casino website ; (The Salisbury Post, 28 March 2004).
- Reviews and commentary on the film of The Hours:
- Philip Hensher's vitrolic opinion piece blasts The Hours as well as 1xbet best casino website work.
- Roberta Rubenstein's &1xbet best casino website ;To the Litehouse&1xbet best casino website ; (26 Jan 2003) in the Washington Post questions Steven Daldry's and Nicole Kidman's portrayal of 1xbet best casino website in the film.
- A Woolf biographer, Hermione Lee, offers her reading of the film in &1xbet best casino website ;Ways of Dying&1xbet best casino website ; (Guardian, 8 Feb 2003).
- 1xbet best casino website scholars, including Jane Marcus, Brenda Silver (author of Virginia 1xbet best casino website Icon), and Vara Neverow (President of the International Virginia Woolf Society), are quoted in Patricia Cohen's article &1xbet best casino website ;The Virginia 1xbet best casino website of 'The Hours' Angers the Real One's Fans&1xbet best casino website ; (New York Times, 15 Feb 2003).
- An interview with playwright David Hare, &1xbet best casino website ;Keeping Time&1xbet best casino website ;(Feb 2003), about the script for The Hours.
- An interview with Michael Cunningham and Steven Daltry (director of TheHours) at the LA Times (16 March 2003), &1xbet best casino website ;Breakfast with Virginia 1xbet best casino website ,&1xbet best casino website ; about their experience first reading Woolf and about British reception of the film.
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Nigel Nicholson
- Read the obituary for Nicholson from The WashingtonPost.
Alice Walker
- Anniina's
Alice Walker Page offers detailed information about Walker's
life and works, with links to bibliographies, book reviews, interviews,
and the works themselves.
- Recommended reading: &1xbet best casino website ;In Our Mother's Garden&1xbet best casino website ; &
the Pulitzer prize-winning The Color Purple (1982).
Vita Sackville-West
- A history of writer, poet and gardener Vita Sackville-West and her amazing family home, Knole, owned since 1566 when Queen Elizabeth granted the great house to Thomas Sackville. (Vita is the model for 1xbet best casino website mock biography Orlando, published 1928.) (Link no longer available.)
- A biography of Sackville-West.
- Portraits of Vita at the National Portrait Gallery.
- Resources on Knole and Sissinghurst.
Jeanette Winterson
- The British Council's Author Page on Winterson provides a biography. (Note: In the &1xbet best casino website ;Critical Perspective&1xbet best casino website ; section of this page, the author incorrectly identifies Henri of The Passion as a woman; critics usually read this character as male.)
- Be sure to visit Jeanette Winterson's own site for a wealth of information, including Winterson's monthly columns to her readers and links to her journalism.
- The Jeanette Winterson Reader's Site offers extensive information about Winterson and her work, as well as links to interviews, criticism, and other sites.
- Read an interview with Winterson about her recent novel, The.Powerbook, at Amazon.co.uk.
- For a discussion of the way Winterson's persona has been presented in the media, you might enjoy a paper I presented a few years ago: &1xbet best casino website ;1xbet best casino website ,In following Woolf's.&1xbet best casino website ;
- Read Winterson's essay announcing her new editions of Woolf's work, &1xbet best casino website ;Who's Afraid of Virginia Now?&1xbet best casino website ;, at The Times (25 May 2000).
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