{"product_id":"9781526171931","title":"In and out of Bloomsbury","description":"Author: Martin Ferguson Smith\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526171931\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Oct 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 328 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly detective work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix of them focus on four pivotal members of the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, and Roger Fry. Prominent ingredients of their story include art, writing, friendship, love, sex, mental illness, and Greek travel. The five \u0026amp;#x27;out of Bloomsbury\u0026amp;#x27; essays are about the \u0026amp;#x27;new\u0026amp;#x27; letters from the novelist Rose Macaulay to the Irish poet Katharine Tynan; the prodigious teenage talents of Dorothy L. Sayers; the remarkable story of Tolkien\u0026amp;#x27;s schoolmaster R. W. Reynolds; and the artist Tristram Hillier in Portugal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection creates a richly varied and entertaining picture of British culture in the first half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;In this masterful collection of essays, he [Martin Ferguson Smith] shines a welcome new light on the oft-told stories of the Bloomsbury Group and their acquaintances, correcting errors, filling in gaps and revealing much 'new' information.' - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920549888158,"sku":"ING-9781526171931","price":45.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526171931.jpg?v=1782823556","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526171931","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}