Bell falls in love with Vanessa Strachey is a friend of Leonard Woolf, who will eventually return from the Colonies to marry Virginia. Forster and many others congregate for bohemian evenings. It’s in this house that Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Maynard Keynes, E.M. The curious, comfortably middle-class ménage of the four orphaned Stephen siblings-Adrian, Thoby, Vanessa and Virginia-living together in a large house in central London in the early 20th century is the foundation of the book. Plunging into her story-the lives, love affairs, intellectual debates, arguments and achievements of an extensive, creative group of English friends- Parmar ( Exit the Actress, 2011) allows the background facts about her real-life characters to emerge as needed. A devoted, emotionally intense portrait of the Bloomsbury group focuses in particular on sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, whose complicated relationship is tested to the breaking point by their competing affections for two men.
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