Julian Bell

VW learned of the death of her nephew Julian Bell , who had gone to serve in the Spanish Civil War and was killed by a shell fragment while driving his ambulance in Spain on...

Virginia and Vanessa (1879-1961, the eldest of Leslie and Julia Stephen's children), were close to one another throughout their lives. In A Sketch of the Past, VW recalls that after the death of their...

Julian Bell arrived at Wuhan University in the city of Wuhan, China, where he soon met and began a romantic relationship with Ling Shuhua .

Chen Xiaoying did not have a close relationship with her mother but travelled frequently with both parents. After their deaths, she defended their posthumous reputations following the publication of a novel about LS's relationship with...

The intensity of their relationship is clear not only in Julian Bell 's accounts of his feelings but also his remarks in letters about her suicide threats when they discussed ending their affair and the...

Chen Xiaoying , Ling Shuhua 's daughter, brought a successful libel case against expatriate Chinese author Hong Ying that ensured the suppression of the latter's novel K: The Art of Love, a loose fictionalization...

Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...

KR felt she was an outsider at Cambridge because she did not come from the upper or upper-middle classes, and because many of her friends there were also outsiders for various reasons. However, they did...

Ling Shuhua began corresponding with Vanessa Bell shortly after the death of Julian Bell , Ling Shuhua's former lover and Vanessa Bell's son.

Ling Shuhua began corresponding with Virginia Woolf , inspired by her reading of A Room of One's Own and her intimate relationship with Woolf's late nephew Julian Bell during his time in China.

Julian Bell recommended during the 1930s that the Hogarth Press should take KR on as an employee, but they did not follow his advice. She was for many years a lecturer at Morley College

Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be...

The novel's title is a clear allusion to Peter Stansky 's account of the couple' affair in his biography of Bell , where Stansky identifies some of Bell 's lovers via letters of the alphabet...

Woolf's attitude to this honour (which, however, was unusual in that she did not decline it) remained deprecating and satirical. She called it the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes and my dog...

LS and Julian Bell translated and edited several of her stories during their romantic relationship in the mid-1930s, when Bell lived in China. At least one, Writing a Letter, went unpublished. Bell sent...