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Details

ISBN13: 9780060548469
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 400
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Publication City, Country: United States
Dimensions (cm): 20.4(H)x13.4(L)x2.5(W)336
Weight (gm): 336

Author Biography

Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After studying at Cambridge University she lived in France and Italy and then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC television. Her first book, Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden -- written in collaboration with her father, Quentin Bell -- was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother, the painter Vanessa Bell -- Virginia Woolf's sister. She is married, has three children and lives in Sussex, England.

Reviews

"A wonderfully researched and colorful composite portrait of an enigmatic world." - San Francisco Chronicle

"In a vibrant catalogue of anecdotes and tragicomics episodes, Nicholson pays homage to British writers and artists who challenged convention before the second world war." - The New Yorker

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