The world of Bloomsbury is one of pictures and people.
It was an artistic and literary style, and also a group of original and creative individuals whose lives have long fascinated the public imagination.
Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Lydia Lopokova, Katherine Mansfield, Frances Partridge, Angelica Garnett: many exceptional women were associated with Bloomsbury.
Their writings, letters, diaries and memoirs provide vivid accounts of friendship, love, art, jealousy, suicide, gossip and day-to-day affairs over forty years.
The men too were exceptional artists and writers whose works and words intimately depict Bloomsbury women.
This book traces the Bloomsbury Group from its beginnings in the early years of the twentieth century to the old age of its founders and the legacy that lives on. Jan Marsh brings a new approach to the group and its female protagonists. Bloomsbury Women presents the textual narrative of the lives and loves, art and ideas of an extraordinary group of friends.
“An excellent addition to Bloomsbury studies that will be of interest to both devotees and newcomers.” – Publishers Weekly
“Jan Marsh's book is the best researched and fullest biography of Rossetti we have yet had.” - Fiona MacCarthy, New York Review of Books
“The author's steady, sympathetic course through Rossetti's divided life enables readers to delve into the intense and original self most fully expressed in her poetry.” - Kirkus Review
Jan Marsh (b.1942) has written a number of ground-breaking biographies, including PreRaphaelite Sisterhood, Jane and May Morris, The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal and her highly acclaimed work Christina Rossetti. She has also scripted arts documentary programmes for radio and television, and has curated exhibitions of work by women painters of the PreRaphaelite movement. She is a contributor to the Dictionary of Women Artists and a frequent lecturer in Britain, North America and Japan.
It was an artistic and literary style, and also a group of original and creative individuals whose lives have long fascinated the public imagination.
Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Lydia Lopokova, Katherine Mansfield, Frances Partridge, Angelica Garnett: many exceptional women were associated with Bloomsbury.
Their writings, letters, diaries and memoirs provide vivid accounts of friendship, love, art, jealousy, suicide, gossip and day-to-day affairs over forty years.
The men too were exceptional artists and writers whose works and words intimately depict Bloomsbury women.
This book traces the Bloomsbury Group from its beginnings in the early years of the twentieth century to the old age of its founders and the legacy that lives on. Jan Marsh brings a new approach to the group and its female protagonists. Bloomsbury Women presents the textual narrative of the lives and loves, art and ideas of an extraordinary group of friends.
Praise for The Bloomsbury Women
“An excellent addition to Bloomsbury studies that will be of interest to both devotees and newcomers.” – Publishers Weekly
Praise for Jan Marsh
“Jan Marsh's book is the best researched and fullest biography of Rossetti we have yet had.” - Fiona MacCarthy, New York Review of Books
“The author's steady, sympathetic course through Rossetti's divided life enables readers to delve into the intense and original self most fully expressed in her poetry.” - Kirkus Review
Jan Marsh (b.1942) has written a number of ground-breaking biographies, including PreRaphaelite Sisterhood, Jane and May Morris, The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal and her highly acclaimed work Christina Rossetti. She has also scripted arts documentary programmes for radio and television, and has curated exhibitions of work by women painters of the PreRaphaelite movement. She is a contributor to the Dictionary of Women Artists and a frequent lecturer in Britain, North America and Japan.
