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Charleston Farmhouse, near Lewes, East Sussex. Charleston, in East Sussex, is a property associated with the Bloomsbury group, that is open to the public.It was the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and is an example of their decorative style within a domestic context, representing the fruition of more than sixty years of artistic creativity. [1]
The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. [1] Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf , John Maynard Keynes , E. M. Forster , Vanessa Bell , and Lytton Strachey .
The Bloomsbury Group plays a prominent role in the LGBT history of its day. While still in the Bloomsbury area, LGBT activity was all very much in a single group (e.g. Duncan Grant, a homosexual with bisexual leanings, [8] having affairs with Maynard Keynes, James Strachey, Adrian Stephen, David Garnett and straight Vanessa Bell). Names of LGBT ...
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell; 25 December 1918 – 4 May 2012), was a British writer, painter and artist.She was the author of the memoir Deceived with Kindness (1984), an account of her experience growing up at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group.
Vanessa Stephen was the elder daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth. [1] The family included her sister Virginia, brothers Thoby (1880–1906) and Adrian (1883–1948), half-sister Laura (1870–1945) whose mother was Harriett Thackeray and half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth; they lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London.
Sussex County commissioners showed no love on Valentine's Day, voting 4-0 to censure one of its members, Bill Hayden. Hayden, who is in his first term as commissioner, was not present for the ...
Monk's House in Rodmell was a centre for the Bloomsbury Group. The poet, writer and Member of Parliament Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) spent most of his life in Sussex, growing up in Slindon and returning to the county to live at Shipley.
A Sussex County bus driver was convicted this week of more than two dozen counts of child endangerment for operating a bus with students aboard while drunk last year, the prosecutor's office stated.