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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]
Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism.
The Loving Friends: A Portrait of Bloomsbury London: The Hogarth Press Ltd, 1974. Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press; 26 January 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-83179-6. Knights, Sarah. Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett, Bloomsbury Reader, Paperback and Digital, 15 May 2015, ISBN 978-1-4482 ...
Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a Scottish painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group.
They had three children: Julian Bell, an artist and muralist; Cressida Bell, a textile designer; and Virginia Nicholson, [6] the writer of Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, Among the Bohemians and Singled Out. Bell had an older brother, the poet Julian Bell, who died in the Spanish Civil War in 1937.
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.
The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. The film is divided into six chapters. The Mill at Tidmarsh, a 1918 painting by Carrington of the Mill House, Tidmarsh, Pangbourne, on the upper ...
Carrington's portrait of E. M. Forster, 1924–25 Dora Carrington; Ralph Partridge; Lytton Strachey; Oliver Strachey; Frances Partridge (née Marshall), 1923.. Carrington was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group, though she was closely associated with Bloomsbury and, more generally, with "Bohemian" attitudes, through her long relationship with the homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, whom she ...