Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom

by Regina Marler

Book Overview

This study of the Bloomsbury set explores its scholars, collectors, fanatics, enemies, bitter controversies and the whole Bloomsbury industry - those who make a living furrowing the now well-ploughed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805044167
• ISBN13: 9780805044164
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Give This Woman Her Own Comedy Hour!

...Or at least a 3-book contract. She's pulled off the miracle of lucid scholarly assessment that entertains as it enlightens. And she's freed a bound subject from its constraints. The prose is beautiful--stinging--and X-Acto knife sharp. The book itself is also beautiful--a slim little curio book made to fit the hand. Marler's clarity and balance will no doubt alienate readers with agendas--but with any luck she'll offend all such readers (who need most to be offended); to this purpose she serves humanity and literature. Her perspective is welcome and her wit to be savored.

to the gentle reviewer from stanford

Your remarks about white males and radical feminism made me doublecheck the isbn on my copy. And I'm still not sure we read the same book. Bloomsbury Pie is easily the most engaging, down-to-earth study of the subject I've ever seen. Not only pro-feminist and thoroughly thoughtful, Marler's writing is full of wit and fun, which no doubt upsets readers who prefer their feminism-- and not their humor--very dry.

Thanks for the slice of Bloomsbury Pie

When I first encountered Bloomsbury Pie I was afraid that its appeals would be limited to scholars buried in a narrow niche of literary history. While it's critical insight and literary, social and historical merit will appease that crowd, as a new-comer to Bloomsbury history I found Bloomsbury Pie to be an insightful and capturing read. Marler's thorough research, passion for the subject and expert writing craft intertwine to make Bloomsbury Pie a tasty treat.

Bloomsbury Pie: How Sweet It Is

Regina Marler's admiration for and knowledge of Virginia Woolf's work inform this text. With respect to the reader from Brown University, to disagree with Jane Marcus is NOT to disparage Virginia Woolf. One of my favorite sentences (of many in the book) is on page 127--"Trying to out-write Virginia Woolf must feel like trying to outwit Oscar Wilde." If this is an example of an author who wants to (and I quote the Brown University reader) "dismiss the great achievements of Bloomsbury leader, Virginia Woolf," then I have happily misunderstood Ms. Marler and joyously misread BLOOMSBURY PIE.