Bloomsbury : a house of lions

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Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsburies": economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, critics Clive Bell and Desmond MacCarthy, and painters Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edel, Leon, 1907-1997
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, ©1979.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Bloomsbury group.
1900-1999
Groupe de Bloomsbury.
Intellectual life.
Bloomsbury (London, England) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Bloomsbury (London, England) > Biography.
London (England) > Biography.
Londres (Angleterre) > Vie intellectuelle.
Londres (Angleterre) > Biographies.
England > London > Bloomsbury.
London (England) > Intellectual life.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • I.
  • Thoroughly
  • The hunter's eye
  • Caliban in different voices
  • Very serious young men
  • Hands
  • A first-class carriage
  • Thoby's room
  • II.
  • A haunted house
  • The sanity of art
  • The other face
  • 46 Gordon Square
  • Clive in Paris
  • Leonard in Ceylon
  • Lytton in Cambridge
  • Bloomsbury: first phase
  • Thoby
  • III.
  • Resurrections
  • The education of Duncan Grant
  • Phase two: Fitzroy Square
  • Vision and design
  • A journey to Byzantium
  • Bloomsbury: the third phase
  • Pericles and Aspasia
  • IV.
  • A crystal moment
  • Between the acts
  • The war
  • Desmond in France
  • Love among the artists
  • Eminence of Lytton
  • Maynard at Versaille
  • House of Lions
  • The memoir club
  • A Bloomsbury chronology 1885-1920.

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