Women of Bloomsbury
Virginia, Vanessa and Carrington
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- $64.99
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- $64.99
Publisher Description
Originally published in 1990, Women of Bloomsbury takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and Dora Carrington. Connected by more than bonds of friendship and artistic endeavour, the three women faced similar struggles. Juxtaposing their personal lives and their work, Mary Ann Caws shows us with feeling and clarity the pain women suffer in being artists and in finding – or creating – their sense of self. Relying on unpublished letters and diaries, as well as familiar texts, Caws give us a portrait of the female self in the act of creation.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As an advocate of personal criticism and ``life-telling''--``a willing, knowledgeable, outspoken involvement'' in a complex situation--City University of New York professor Caws here intensely projects herself into the loves, lives and works of one well-known writer (Virginia Woolf) and two artists (Vanessa Bell and Dora Carrington) who gave up the love of ``normal'' men on behalf of an all-encompassing love for homosexual men (Duncan Grant and Lytton Strachey). Unfortunately, this sympathetic, partisan approach, the author's access to hitherto unpublished sources and her comparisons of these women's lives and achievements are compromised by her long, turgid sentences and polemics. Illustrations.
