Bloomsbury at Home

by Pamela Todd

Book Overview

In her tenth book, Todd describes the lives, relationships, and homes of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, the Bells, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, and various other members of the Bloomsbury group. She includes quotations from diaries, letters, and recollections and illustrates the text with paintings, sketches, family photographs, and new photography of Bloomsbury homes and studios.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810941112
• ISBN13: 9780810941113
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Bloomsbury at Home by Pamela Todd

This is a truly wonderful book. Todd describes the homes of many of the people who participated in the Bloomsbury group, in addition to the complex interrelationships of the people involved, their parties and their artwork. She is one of the most focused biographers I have read: always interesting, always to the point. Considering the number of people she has to write about, it is amazing that she never strays from her focus. The book is beautifully designed and illustrated. It is a book that I will go back to over and over.

Bloomsbury in Your Home

Bloomsbury at Home is a welcome addition to the bibliography of titles about the very interesting, influential and eccentric group of artists who flourished in England and France during the early part of the twentieth century. These multitalented poets, writers, painters and thinkers lived life enthusiastically and shared ideas, activities and loves with each other and the world. Pamela Todd's extended essay on the Bloomsburyites, including Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and Duncan Grant captures their individuality, and sometimes irrationality, while celebrating their devotion to freedom of thought. The really spectacular and original contribution of Bloomsbury at Home, however, comes with the reproduction of a number of paintings and drawings by the Bloomsbury group, which are otherwise difficult to find gathered in one place. This book is a treasured and inexpensive addition to my library of literary and artistic movements, and I highly recommend it to others interested in the relationship of the visual and literary arts to modern society before the Second World War.