Publications
Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, by Maggie Humm, published 20 December 2005 (240 pp., London: Tate, ISBN-10: 1854376721 & ISBN-13: 9781854376725) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:In this enthralling portrait, Maggie Humm makes available, for the first time, a wealth of barely known photographs, both amateur and professional, that cast new light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, as well as the historical, cultural, and artistic milieux of their circle in Bloomsbury and beyond. We visit the domestic lives of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers and artists, such as E. M. Forster, who is pictured happily pruning trees with Leonard Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are intimate portraits of Vanessa Bell's children and erotic photos of Duncan Grant's lovers.