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Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf [Hardcover]

Maggie Humm (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press (November 29, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0813537061
  • ISBN-13: 978-0813537061
  • Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Intimate and stylish, August 7, 2006
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Bloomsbury Gal (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed this book. I could pore over the fashions, the interior decoration - it satisfied my desire to see all the details! At the same time, I got a sense of the passage of time in Virginia and Vanessa's lives. Read as a companion to any of Woolf's novels, I think the book would also convey a sense of the writing process.

It evokes the time and place beautifully, and the text is not intrusive: the images are allowed to take centre stage as works of art in their own right.

Fine choice, Sweetpea!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Get out the magnifying glass!, February 26, 2008
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This review is from: Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf (Hardcover)
If you are looking for a round up of the extensive group of people that contributed to what became known as Bloomsbury, you will be disappointed. There are some players that are generously represented and others, such as Sidney Saxon-Turner, Dora Carrington and Ralph Partridge, barely or not at all. As significant a drawback is the size of many reproductions. Whole album pages have been reproduced, which in and of itself is interesting, but is reduces the size of the photos such that frequently the people are so small as to be recognizable. Many of these photos have been reproduced in larger and more satisfactory formats in other biographies and memoirs. Also strange, even within the context, the quantity of photos of nude children reproduced here. Having just reread Quentin Bell's bio of his aunt Virginia I bought hoping to fill out the visual record. No such luck.
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3 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars I'm in between, April 16, 2006
This review is from: Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf (Hardcover)
Nutty yet poignant

Have we found the smoking gun here? I doubt it

Bloomsbury has a posse!
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VIRGINA WOOLF the writer and her sister Vanessa Bell the artist created self-portraits, portraits of their friends and family, and also studies of the places where they lived. Read the first page
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domestic photographs, loose photographs, professional photographs
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Bell Album, Houghton Library, Monk's House Album, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Harvard Theatre Collection, Vanessa Bell, Bell Alhum, Monks House, Virginia Stephen, Houghton Lihrarv, Lytton Strachey, Angelica Bell, Man Ray, Clive Bell, Stella Duckworth, Leonard Woolf, Talland House, Julia Stephen, Maynard Keynes, Copyright Tate, Asheham House, Julia Margaret Cameron
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