A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf
by Jane Dunn
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This is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The influence they exerted over each others lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and also their intense rivalry is explored here with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkably artistic women who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group is revealed with all its intricacies in this moving biography.Tags
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An excellent if slightly repetitive (how many times in how many different ways can you say that Virginia was the woman of literary and verbal genius in contrast with Vanessa the sexually successful but inarticulate home-making painter?) account of the history of those wonderful Stephen sisters.
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- A Very Close Conspiracy - Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf
- People/Characters
- Virginia Woolf; Vanessa Bell; Clive Bell; Leonard Woolf
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- 'A Very Close Conspiracy' is the story of a relationship between sisters. - Preface
The sisters' relationship was a complex, many-layered thing. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was two decades, almost to the day, after Virginia had walked into the River Ouse, just five miles distant, over the hill.
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