Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden is a fascinating personal account by Quentin Bell and his daughter Virginia Nicholson of the extraordinary Bloomsbury Group country house, its history and the lives of those who lived in it.
Includes all five paperback books in slipcase.
The first full-scale biography of the eminent British writer, written by her nephew. Index; photographs.
The author recounts anecdotes of his parents, Vanessa and Clive Bell, his aunt, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Maynard Keynes, Anthony Blunt, and other British writers and artists
Der legendäre Bloomsbury-Kreis von Künstlern und Literaten um die Schwestern Virginia Woolf und Vanessa Bell, geschildert von einem, der darin aufgewachsen ist: dem Sohn von Virginia Woolfs Schwester. Aus der Innensicht entwirft er in sechzehn biographischen Porträts eine ganze Welt. »Ein heiteres, charmantes Buch.« Janet Malcolm, The New York Times
What is the tantalizing secret that Lady Mary Brandon holds from the world till death? A dedicated suffragette and philanthropist, beloved by all, she expires peacefully in her bed at the age of seventy-two, yet the attending physician refuses to sign a death certificate. This circumstance inspires young Maurice Evans to take a closer look at Lady Brandon's past. Probing byways untrod by her official biographer, Evans follows the trail of Mary's early life, from a sequestered girlhood in a castle off the coast of Labrador to an education in the capitals of Europe as a proper Victorian heiress. Eventually she returns to the heart of the Brandon family in the Sussex countryside, where all too soon she is swept into the arms of a handsome cousin. Although their marriage is short-lived, their macabre wedding night is long to be remembered. Drawing on numerous documents, including Mary's autobiographical novel, the memoirs of her governess, and the eyewitness account of a French maid, Evans gradually uncovers an imbroglio of deception and debauchery in the upper ranks of English society. He dies, alas, before the fruits of his research can be made public. Quentin Bell steps in to present The Brandon Papers--a literary entertainment of ingenious design, insidious humor, and deliciously Gothic suspense.
