Collection Three: Bloomsbury

COLLECTION THREE: Bloomsbury

The Charleston Festival, held at the former home of artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in Sussex, England, provided the inspiration for The Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival. The Bloomsbury Group artists, writers, and thinkers were the creative spark behind the establishment of the Sussex Festival. In honor of our sister Festival across the sea, here’s a collection of Bloomsbury-inspired titles to satisfy the most Anglophile among us.

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The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf by Frances Spalding

The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her


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Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom by Regina Marler

An examination the persistent allure of Bloomsbury--a fascination driven by nostalgia, adoration, and antipathy--and the resurgence of interest in the Group


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The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature by Bill Goldstein

A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism


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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris

A groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties