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The #VirginiaBloomsberries October #buddyread is Jane Dunn's 1990 biography of VW and her sister Vanessa Bell. She explores the complex relationship between the sisters and the effect this had on their creative lives and the Bloomsbury Group.
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The #VirginiaBloomsberries October #buddyread is Jane Dunn's 1990 biography of VW and her sister Vanessa Bell. She explores the complex relationship between the sisters and the effect this had on their creative lives and the Bloomsbury Group.
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pick★★★★★
A wonderfully informative and readable biography of one of my favourite writers. It was so well-done that I didn't want the book to end and I am today in mourning for Hardy, though he died nearly a century ago. This American edition was beautifully designed by The Penguin Press, including a reference map of the area around Dorchester by Andrew Farmer.
'If he went to church, he explained that it was not "because he believed in it, which he did not, but because it was good for the people to get clean and come together once a week - like discipline in the army."' p. 345, taken from the diary of Elliott Felkin.
'The problem of who was to live at Max Gate apart from ghosts remained.'
A wonderful sentence conveying the truth of the complicated situation at Hardy's house after the death of his first wife and displaying Tomalin's great skill as a popular biographer.
#VirginiaBloomsberries
I really enjoyed this glimpse into the rural life of VW and her fellow authors.
🌿 What did you think of the biography?
🌿 Did the accounts of VW's contemporaries, Townsend-Warner & Lehmann, help give context into her world?
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