The Bloomsbury Group was as well kwn for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora and Lytton Strachey was one of the most tortured (Frances loved Ralph, who loved Dora, who loved Lytton, who loved Ralph) - and tragic, ending in the death of Strachey and the suicide of Dora. Love in Bloomsbury, Frances Partridge's celebrated account of these turbulent years, describes her Victorian upbringing and tells the story of the star-crossed quartet, two of whom were doomed, the other two survivors. Replete with vivid accounts of parties and infused with the heady, Bohemian atmosphere which flourished after the First World War and revealing character sketches of all the principal Bloomsberries - Leonard and Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry. This is 'Bloomsbury laid bare' - a window onto the lives, loves and excesses of some of the 20th centuries most intriguing, yet engimatic, players.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
I.B. Tauris, I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd.
GTIN
9781780766904
ISBN-10
1780766904
ISBN-13
9781780766904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189913441
Product Key Features
Author
Frances Partridge
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Literary
Publication Year
2014
Type
Biography
Genre
Biography: Literary
Dimensions
Weight
272g
Depth
23 mm
Height
198mm
Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Publication Country
GB
Spine
23mm
Pagination
256
Content Note
2x8pp Bw Plates
Region
World
Author Biography
Frances Partridge, CBE (1900-2004) was, the last survivor of the Bloomsbury Group and the author of memoirs and diaries such as A Pacifist's War, Julia, Nothing to Lose and Hanging On, among many others.