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Vanessa Bell: Life Before Bloomsbury
"I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as one is forced to think."
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Victoria K. Walker
14
Christopher Wood: An Irregular Life
“I seem to live on the very edge of the world. But what an edge it is.”
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Victoria K. Walker
16
Cedric Lockwood Morris: A Colourful Life
"A Van Gogh or Utrillo for those of modest means."
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Victoria K. Walker
44
Roger Fry: Life Before Bloomsbury
"Incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin."
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Victoria K. Walker
14
Lytton Strachey: Life Before Bloomsbury
“It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.”
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Victoria K. Walker
18
Dod Procter: A Portrait of the Artist
"Dod will dwell in the memory of her friends and admirers."
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Victoria K. Walker
18
Nina Hamnett: Queen of Bohemia
“A lady was the last thing I wanted to be.”
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Victoria K. Walker
23
John Everett Millais: The Order of Release
"She is the most delightful unselfish kind-hearted creature I ever knew."
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Victoria K. Walker
15
Katherine & Virginia: Friends or Foes?
"Katherine Mansfield has dogged my steps for three years."
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Victoria K. Walker
28
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Stand By Me
"I have felt what it is to be famous."
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Victoria K. Walker
15
Beatrix Potter: The Tale of A Lady in the Lakes
"As nearly perfect a little place as I ever lived in."
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Victoria K. Walker
27
C. S. Lewis: The Road to Narnia
"Only the beginning of the adventures."
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Victoria K. Walker
14
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