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Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell: A Childhood in St Ives

Marion Whybrow

Halstar

2014

English

Nonfictional

Marion Whybrow’s book offers insight into the family life of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, two iconic figures of early 20th-century English art. Focusing on their childhood summers at Talland House in St Ives, a fishing port and artists' colony, it highlights how the freedom they experienced there shaped their development as emancipated women, with Vanessa becoming an artist and Virginia a writer. The book paints a vivid picture of St Ives, both in its local life and artistic community, and includes illustrations that bring the sisters' world to life.

Snail, WAA
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