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  • Duncan Grant

    by Frances Spalding ...
    Discover the story of Bloomsbury's most charismatic character, lifelong friend and collaborator of Vanessa Bell.'Sketches out the intricate emotional web against the bright, bold, untouchable figure of the artist.' - Financial TimesThe life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s. Acclaimed biographer Frances Spalding ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Gwen Raverat

    Friends, Family and Affections

    by Frances Spalding ...
    'The best of these Darwins is that they are cut out of rock - three taps is enough to convince one how immense is their solidarity.' So wrote Virginia Woolf affectionately of Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin.In this first full biography, Frances Spalding looks beyond the artist Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir; Period Piece, and creates a fascinating and moving portrait of Charles ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Stevie Smith

    A Biography

    by Frances Spalding ...
    'Confident and very readable . . . one of Frances Spalding's achievements in this book is to display Stevie Smith's frailties without destroying her dignity' – Victoria Glendinning, Literary Review'A careful, informative and worthwhile book' – Hermione Lee, The Observer'It is a biography of inner life. It is also a hymn to tenebrous suburbia, a book full of English oddness, and a lovely loamis... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Vanessa Bell

    Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist

    by Frances Spalding ...
    The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell.Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure, Bell lived at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group and was often the core figure around which the disparate individuals of the movement revolved.Her art and designs – so often overshadowed by her sister ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Stevie Smith

    A Biography

    by Frances Spalding ...
    'Confident and very readable . . . one of Frances Spalding's achievements in this book is to display Stevie Smith's frailties without destroying her dignity' – Victoria Glendinning, Literary Review'A careful, informative and worthwhile book' – Hermione Lee, The Observer'It is a biography of inner life. It is also a hymn to tenebrous suburbia, a book full of English oddness, and a lovely loamis... ... Read more

    $19.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edward Burne-Jones

    by Penelope Fitzgerald ...
    Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.‘I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone – in a land no one can define or remember, only desire’ Edward Burne ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Room of One's Own

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
    In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular ‘room of one’s own’, prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential.As relevant in its insight and indignation ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Voyage Out

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY FRANCES SPALDING AND ERICA WAGNERA party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. She is a free spirit, half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer. But their engagement is to end abruptly, not in marriage but in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Between The Acts

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. It was published shortly after her death in 1941. The book describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a play at a festival in a small English village, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. (Wikipedia) This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Jacob's Room (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Virginia Woolf, Kristina K. Groover ...
    Set in pre-war England, Jacob's Room traces the development of Jacob Flanders from childhood to adulthood. In this pathbreaking experimental novel, Jacob's character and the events of his life are revealed primarily through the letters, conversations, and thoughts of the people in his life who love him. Their impressions and memories surround the lacuna at the center of the story, which is Jacob ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell

    A Very Close Conspiracy

    by Jane Dunn ...
    A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group'An outstanding work... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to date' Literary Review'Dunn's unlayering of this complex relationship is subtle and far-reaching' Sunday Times'An investigation into the dynamics of friendship and sibling rivalry, maternal solicitude and m... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Night and Day

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Classic novel, first published in 1919. According to Wikipedia: "Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group ... Read more

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