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Double Take: A Rephotographic Survey of Madison, Wisconsin by Zane Williams
Insubstantial pageant: Ceremony and confusion at Queen Victoria's court by Jeffrey L Lant
Ottoline. The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. by Sandra Jobson. DARROCH
Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939
In The Stillness Dancing: The Life of Father John Main by Neil Mckenty
Lake Superior - The American Lakes Series by Grace Lee Nute
Thomas Jefferson: A Life by Willard S. Randall
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Favorite authorsHarry Castlemon, Jared Diamond, Antonia Fraser, Aldo Leopold, Robert K. Massie, Sigurd F. Olson, Lytton Strachey, Leo Tolstoy (Shared favorites)
About meI am retired after a career in adult education during which I held various administrative positions at the University of Wisconsin and the American Council on Education in Washington. I have written four books on education subjects, one of them a biography of the late adult education philosopher/lecturer [[Eduard Lindeman]]. My usual reading fare tends toward biography, autobiography, history, politics, and the environment.
About my libraryI collect biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and letters in the following categories: (1) U.S. Presidents, (2) royalty, and (3) the Bloomsbury Group and am an avid reader of biographies in almost any category. I also have most books that have written about the art and craft of biography and autobiography. Approximately two thirds of the books in my library of about 1,100 books are biographies/autobiographies.
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posted by theoldman at 8:32 am (EST) on Jul 31, 2009
Thanks for Friend Linkup :) Yes , Bloomsbury is my present focus and will be for some time. For about four years I was reading everything about Henry Brooks Adams even traveling to England to visit his haunts . Henry and his wife Mariam while living in Washington DC in the 1880s had become acquainted
with Lionel Sackville West and his Daughter Victoria . Victoria was the mother of Vita Sackville West. You no doubt know about the close friendship between Vita and Virginia Woolf.
My reading lead me to the Sackville Wests in particular Vita and Harold who I spent a good year. My interest in Bloomsbury peaked when one evening at Hogarth c1924? (might have been Rodmell) when Vita and Harold where visiting Virginia and Leonard. Nessa , Duncan,Roger and Lytton were there and Lytton made an untoward comment to Harold that shuttered any hope of continued friendship between them. My first reaction to the comment was " That SOB Strachey is a jerk!) But it was Strachey and his comment that got me hooked. About six months later I started devouring Bloomsbury ,I am now reading The Diary Of VW 1915 and Lytton Strachey Once I am through all the reading my wife and I will go to England for a long visit and do a Sackville West-Nicholson- Bloomsbury exursion.
Thats a fairly winded introduction above isn't it, but passion has a tendency to flow doesn't it!? MY interest in Bloomsbury is the incredibly different personalities, their rejection of Victorian/Edwardian Society and their introduction of a new view which is still effecting us. They were also tragic and brave which I suppose goes with the event. ( Fry & Post-Impressionism.)
Like you I have close friends from my childhood and many close acquaintances but none that have ever heard the term Bloomsbury. Some though have heard of Dora Carrington and Vita/Violet because of the Movies.
Regards
Joe Bott
posted by DeadFred at 4:12 pm (EST) on Jul 25, 2009