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These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a
selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on
detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts,
pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly
detective work. Six of them focus on four pivotal members of the
Bloomsbury Group - Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, and
Roger Fry. Prominent ingredients of their story include art,
writing, friendship, love, sex, mental illness, and Greek travel.
The five 'out of Bloomsbury' essays are about the 'new' letters
from the novelist Rose Macaulay to the Irish poet Katharine Tynan;
the prodigious teenage talents of Dorothy L. Sayers; the remarkable
story of Tolkien's schoolmaster R. W. Reynolds; and the artist
Tristram Hillier in Portugal. The collection creates a richly
varied and entertaining picture of British culture in the first
half of the twentieth century. -- .
Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and
highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura
--long out of print--is virtually unknown. Readers will share our
excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose
rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised
translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography.
These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a
selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on
detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts,
pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly
detective work. Six of them focus on four pivotal members of the
Bloomsbury Group – Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, and
Roger Fry. Prominent ingredients of their story include art,
writing, friendship, love, sex, mental illness, and Greek travel.
The five ‘out of Bloomsbury’ essays are about the ‘new’
letters from the novelist Rose Macaulay to the Irish poet Katharine
Tynan; the prodigious teenage talents of Dorothy L. Sayers; the
remarkable story of Tolkien’s schoolmaster R. W. Reynolds; and
the artist Tristram Hillier in Portugal. The collection creates a
richly varied and entertaining picture of British culture in the
first half of the twentieth century. Longlisted for the William MB
Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 -- .
This fascinating book presents the first biography of Helen
Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also
for her intellect, personality and wit. It reveals her family
background and education, her place in the Arts and Crafts Movement
and her outstanding artistic output.
Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and
highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of De Rerum Natura
--long out of print--is virtually unknown. Readers will share our
excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose
rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised
translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography.
Madeleine Symons (1895-1957) was a brilliantly effective women's
trade union officer during and after the First World War. In years
when she was still not qualified to vote, she served on the
executive committee of the Labour Party, as a Justice of the Peace,
and on a Royal Commission. Her union career was abruptly ended in
1926 by pregnancy and unmarried motherhood. Later she worked
tirelessly as a juvenile magistrate in London and for social
justice and penal reform everywhere. Her story, told for the first
time on the sixtieth anniversary of her death, is of historical and
human interest and has lessons for society today.
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