The Bloomsbury Group (Character Sketches Series) - Hardcover

Spalding, Frances

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9781855142022: The Bloomsbury Group (Character Sketches Series)

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ISBN 10: 1855142023 ISBN 13: 9781855142022

Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1997

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Part of the "Character Sketches" series, this title looks at the Bloomsbury Group. The series features compact guides devoted to literary, artistic and historic personalities, circles and themes. They contain portraits in a variety of media, all selected from the National Portrait Gallery's diverse collection. The illustrations are accompanied by substantial and relevant quotations from the works of the people featured, as well as contemporary descriptions and anecdotes from unpublished as well as published source. The books should be of interest to general readers and students alike. Frances Spalding is the author of "Roger Fry: Art and Life", "Vanessa Bell", "Dance Till the Stars Come Down: A Biography of John Minton" and "Duncan Grant".

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Frances Spalding is a leading authority on Bloomsbury. She has written biographies of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, for ten years edited the Charleston Magazine and has lectured widely on aspects of Bloomsbury. Her most recent book was Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections (2001). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and is currently Reader in Twentieth-century British Art at the University of Newcastle.

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