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Rd of a young girl's particular struggle to achieve independence from that extraordinary and intense milieu as a mature and independent woman With an honesty that is by degrees agonising and uplifting the author creates a vibrant poignant picture of her mother Vanessa Bell of her own emergent individuality and of the Bloomsbury era From a review by Tiffin on LibraryReads The book sheds light into certain corners of Virginia Woolf s personality Vanessa Bell and the lives of the whole Bloomsbury group But that illumination is incidental to the real purpose of the book a deeply introspective look by an individual at what has shaped them to be the person they have ended up being An interesting read Kingdom of Ash Throne of Glass 7 of a young girl's particular struggle to achieve independence from that extraordinary and intense milieu as a mature and independent woman With an honesty that is by degrees agonising and uplifting the author creates a vibrant poignant picture Imagine Me of her mother Vanessa Bell Beyond Temptation of her Past Due Debt Collection own emergent individuality and Die Visioene Van Johanna Brandt of the Bloomsbury era From a review by Tiffin The Neuropsychology of Self Discipline on LibraryReads The book sheds light into certain corners Where I’m Calling From of Virginia Woolf s personality Vanessa Bell and the lives The Accidental Activist of the whole Bloomsbury group But that illumination is incidental to the real purpose

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Angelica Garnett may truly Kindness A ePUB #8608 be called a child of Bloomsbury Her Aunt Deceived with ePUB #192 was Virginia Woolf her mother Vanessa Bell and her father Duncan Grant though with Kindness A eBook #9734 for many years Angelica believed herself naturally enough the daughter of Vanessa's husband CliveHer childhood hom At home with the Bloomsbury Group and slightly limited by a child s perspective the memoir is useful ground work for exploring Bloomsbury texts and art Duncan Grant comes out well and as I lived next to his childhood holiday home between Avie and Kincraig in Scotland then I obviously found it a pleasure The Grant family themselves are fascinating everything from Memoirs of a Highland Lady to Grant s Whiskey made by the other half of the family who founded Granton On SpeyHaving read Mr Garnett s Lady into Fox and Woolf s Orlando in which Angelica appears as the photo of the Russian Princess Sasha who is described as a fox you can t help noticing that something utterly bizarre happened at Angelica s birth it goes something like this Bunny Garnett was the homosexual lover of Duncan Grant Duncan Grant had a sexual liaison with Vanessa Bell who was married to his friend Clive Bell When the child was born apparently Bunny declared he would marry her when she was an adult When Angelica was 7 Bunny wrote a book about a wife changing into a fox having an illegitimate child with another fox and calling it Angelica the husband then loves the baby fox insteadIf that isn t weird enough Virginia Woolf when she modeled Sasha on the child Angelica in 1928 when Angelica was 10 calls Sasha a Russian fox in the text of Orlando She must have read Garnett s book and understood the referenceThen Bunny rabbit hunted by foxes did go and marry Angelica when she emerged from her teens If this happened in recent terms then phrases like taken into care and 10 to 15 years would come to mind They were a crazy lot those Bloomsbury types

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Es Charleston in Sussex and Gordon Suare in London were both centres of Bloomsbury activity and she grew up surrounded by the most talked about writers and artists of the day Leonard and Virginia Woolf Roger Fry the Stracheys Maynard Keynes David Garnett whom she later married and many othersBut Deceived with Kindness is also a reco A vivid picture of the Bloomsbury group from the point of view of someone raised in it from childhood though Angelica was a casualty of her parents dedication to art and to themselves before all else She brings everyone to lifeOf Lytton Strachey I remember little he was for me hardly than a pair of dark brown eyes magnified by glasses kindly but so intensely reflective that communication was almost out of the uestionVirginia poured out tea not as Vanessa did with a careful steady hand but waving the teapot to and fro as she talked to emphasize her meaningAnd this from the beginningIn the passage at Charleston I had hung some photographs of my grandmother Julia Jackson taken by my great great aunt Julia Margaret Cameron As I looked at them I became conscious of an inheritance not only of genes but also of feelings and habits of mind which like motes of dust spiralling downwards settle on the most recent generation