Clive Bell

One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...

The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , E. M. Forster , and Lytton Strachey , the economic theories of Maynard Keynes

Having achieved a footing of friendship with Walter Sickert and the others of the Fitzroy Street Group , NH went on through Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell to get to know the members of the...

This time Mary Hutchinson , Clive Bell , Aldous Huxley , T. W. Earp , Brett , J. M. Keynes , and J. T. Sheppard were there. KM was back for further weekends in September...

Novel on Yellow Paper was an immediate critical success. Appreciation expressed in reviews by Naomi Mitchison and Rosamond Lehmann laid the foundations for SS 's friendships with these and other writers. A poet, Robert Nichols

Lytton Strachey told Leonard Woolf that Virginia's story was a work of genius. The liquidity of the style fills me with envy . . . . How on earth does she make the English language...

The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader...

After returning from New York, RF met Vanessa and Clive Bell on a train from Cambridge to London, and arranged for Clive's assistance with the upcoming Post-Impressionist exhibition at the Grafton Gallery .

In 1910 the committee was expanded and renamed the Contemporary Art Society. Its members then included the original four founders, plus Clive Bell and Ottoline's brother Henry Bentinck . 44 Bedford Square functioned as the...

Assigned to farm labour, registered conscientious objectors including Clive Bell began to arrive at LOM 's estate, Garsington Manor, to work there.

VW 's professional reputation began to shift at about this time. From the early 1920s, she developed an increasingly strong self-image as an adult woman and writer. More and more, her novels both won praise...

Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa , Clive Bell

Virginia Stephen (later VW ) moved to 29 Fitzroy Square to live with her surviving brother, Adrian . Vanessa and Clive Bell took over the former family home at 46 Gordon Square.

Hermione Lee sees VW 's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality. Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...

She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.