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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939, by Virginia Nicholson, published 27 November 2003 (400 pp., London: Penguin, ISBN-10: 014028978X & ISBN-13: 9780140289787) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand experiment.
Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, broke and hungry but they were rebels.
In this fascinating book Virginia Nicholson examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives.

Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Gardens, by Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicholson, published 1 May 2004 (160 pp., Frances Lincoln, ISBN-10: 071122370X & ISBN-13: 9780711223707) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virghinia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney's atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell's family album convey the flavour of the household in its heyday.