Virginia Woolf
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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
Woolf in 1902
Duckworth/Stephen Family c. 1892. Back row: Gerald Duckworth, Virginia, Thoby and Vanessa Stephen, George Duckworth. Front row: Adrian, Julia, Leslie Stephen.
Virginia and Leslie Stephen, 1902
Virginia (third from left) with her mother and the Stephen children at their lessons, Talland House, c. 1894
Vanessa Bell
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Vanessa Bell was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf.
Virginia Woolf
…the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen. She grew up in a blended household of eight children, including her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell. Educated at home in English classics and Victorian literature, Woolf later attended King's College London, where she studied classics and history and…
Roger Fry, Portrait of Vanessa Bell, 1916
Roger Fry Portrait of Vanessa Bell, 1916
Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maria Nys (later Huxley), Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell (1915)
First edition dustjacket of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway, 1925; cover art by Vanessa Bell