Jane Dunn

Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell (eBook, ePUB)

A Very Close Conspiracy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group

'An outstanding work... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to date' Literary Review

'Dunn's unlayering of this complex relationship is subtle and far-reaching' Sunday Times

'An investigation into the dynamics of friendship and sibling rivalry, maternal solicitude and mutual need' New York Times

'A revealing pleasure' Independent

This is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - the writer Virginia Woolf and artist Vanessa Bell. Their influence over each other's lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and total commitment to their work is laid out with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkable women at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group is revealed in all its intricacies in this exploration of their intertwined lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748129140
• Artikelnr.: 39585383

Autorenporträt

Jane Dunn is the author of six acclaimed biographies: Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley; Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy; Antonia White: A Life; Read My Heart: A Love Story in the Age of Revolution: Dorothy Osborne & Sir William Temple; Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing; and the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. She has subsequently written a series of historical romances set in England during the Napoleonic Wars. Jane Dunn is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Berkshire with her husband, the linguist Nicholas Ostler.