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A rare collection of personal essays by a famous painter who shunned publicity and never published any autobiographical work. As such it fills in a few gaps in this artist's life and highlights the many gaps that remain. This work helps address the almost complete absence of biographical material on Vanessa Bell, which is all the more surprising given her famous connections both through family and colleagues: she was the elder sister and confidant of author Virginia Woolf and a central member of the Bloomsbury Group which included such luminaries as economist Maynard Keynes and painter Roger Fry. Essential reading for fans of Bloomsbury and the intellectual climate that influenced the later twentieth century.
