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Lady Ottoline's album: Snapshots and portraits of her famous contemporaries (and of herself) by Ottoline Morrell
The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914 by Henry James
The Life Of James Monroe by George Morgan
Duncan Grant: A Biography by Frances Spalding
Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer
English Springer Spaniels (A Complete Pet Owner's Manual) by Tanya B. Ditto
Breakfast of Champions by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut
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CollectionsYour library (154), Currently reading (3), All collections (155)
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TagsBloomsbury (5), Keppel (1), Henry Marian Adams Clover Hooper Washington DcC Salon history (1), Bloomsbury -ish (1), England (1), King Henry VII (1), history (1), Pulitzer Prize (1), Vita Sackville West (1), Dumfries (1) — see all tags
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GroupsAncient History, Anglophiles, English History - Tudor through Edwardian, Genealogy is my passion, History: On learning from and writing history, Non-Fiction Readers, Romance - from historical to contemporary
Favorite authorsHenry Brooks Adams (Shared favorites)
About mePlenty to tell unfortunately not much of what I can tell will be of outside interest. I love history evident by my library. I have a website that is somewhat in the historical way by reuniting individuals with their ancestors photos ( link below). Very happily Married,with 4 sons now grown 10 great ( like in wow!) Grandkids . Principal Scientist for a Major Food Company . Travel as much as affordable and when I have the time , Self styled a Fun Loving Foody as I am a Food Technologist who has been lucky enough to travel much and experience "Food" from many perspectives , Like I said before I love history and I chase it , in particular Henry Adams ( See my blog http://www.deadfred.com/blog/2008/05/16/...) . Presently chasing the Bloomsbury Group , I find them very interesting in thier pecular-ness especially the peripheral people like Vita Sackville West & Vita's husband Harold Nicolson, Mark Gertle,Dora Carrington,Ralph & Francis Partridge. Their relationships are not really what I find the most interesting as much as how much their personalities effected their contemporaries and how they differed from society during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.
am also unquestionably a Romantic. I like art (Pencil Sketching) but haven't been at it for a while and the late 60's - 70s which I lived through and enjoyed . Getting out of the service in 1969 and experiencing all the upheaval was something to see and be felt .
About my libraryNot all of the books listed are in my household library , some are in my head having read them over the years. But each of these cerebral copies are as much a part of me as the ones I can still reference off of the household book shelf
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Currently readingDon't Look Round by Violet Trefusis
Desperate Genealogist Idea Book by Lisa Alzo, Bott,Joe, Croom, Emily DearMYRTLE, Fitzpatrick,Colleen , Gardes, Charlie , Konvalinka,John Smolenyak,Megan Taylor,Maureen Yeiser,Andrew
Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 2: Vol. 2 (1920-1924) [DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF V02] by
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Yes, of course, I'd like to be your librarything friend. You have a very interesting library. I would like to encourage you to continue your exploration of the Bloomsbury Group. I think I have nearly everything that has been written about them. My interest in them is primarily their near perfection in acquiring the art of friendship. I envy them that. I have several close friends but have never found a larger group with whom I could develop a personal and intellectual affinity. Last winter my wife and I attended a conference on Bloomsbury art at Duke where I almost immediately connected with almost anyone we met. One of the Bell grandsons was there, along with a number of people from England. Have you read "Bloomsbury in France?" The author of that book was there, and we had a spirited conversation one night at dinner.
Best Wishes,
Dave Stewart
posted by dwsact at 1:19 pm (EST) on Jul 25, 2009
posted by whitewavedarling at 1:20 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2009