San Antonio College Library

"In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century known as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people among whom he came of age." "Here are Bell's candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell - Virginia Woolf's sister - Vanessa's lover, Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey,...

This book looks at the lives of three Bloomsbury women--writer Virginia Woolf, Virginia's sister and talented painter Vanessa Bell, and an unsuccessful, reclusive artist Dora Carrington. It also gives an intimate look at friendship, artistic endeavor, and women's search for selfhood.