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Quentin Bell, the Chronicler Of Bloomsbury, Dies at 86
By Mel Gussow
- Dec. 19, 1996
Quentin Bell, author, artist, critic and biographer of his aunt Virginia Woolf, died on Monday at his home in Firle in East Sussex, England, near the Charleston farmhouse where he grew up at the center of the Bloomsbury group. He was 86.
The son of Virginia Woolf's older sister, Vanessa Bell, and Clive Bell, Mr. Bell was born into Bloomsbury, that legendary gathering of variously talented artists and writers, friends and lovers who were to have such an important impact on English letters, art and society and on generations that followed.
His aunt once told him, ''You will always be ignorant and illiterate,'' a remark he remembered with a curious kind of affection. Contrary to that prediction, he proved to be polymathic in his creative contributions. With the publication of his highly acclaimed book ''Virginia Woolf: A Biography'' in 1972, and his other works, he became Bloomsbury's most painstaking and sensitive chronicler and eventually the guardian of the family legacy.
In common with other members of this celebrated circle, he did not limit himself to one occupation. He was a sculptor as well as a painter, a teacher as well as an art critic, and a potter. Relatively late in life, he also published a novel. One of the astonishments of his life was that, surrounded by flamboyance and bizarre behavior, he seemed to survive intact and eventually became a grand old man of Bloomsbury lore.
''I loved my parents,'' he once said, ''and I had more than the usual number to love.'' He was referring to Clive and Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry (both of whom had affairs with his mother). But he could also have been speaking about the entire wide extended family that filled his childhood and his adult life. These included Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, David Garnett, Ottoline Morrell, Vita Sackville-West and Dora Carrington.
When he published his 1996 memoir ''Bloomsbury Recalled,'' Mr. Bell confessed his inability to write about his own life and instead devoted the main body of the work ''not to me, but to my elders and betters, a term I have used to describe my parents, their friends and acquaintances.''
In contrast to others, who wrote about the people of the Bloomsbury set with recriminations and bitterness, Mr. Bell remained fair-minded. Reviewing ''Bloomsbury Recalled'' in The New York Times Book Review, Janet Malcolm said that ''Mr. Bell evidently could not change the habits of a lifetime of literary self-effacement; he continues to feel comfortable in the position of the observer and uncomfortable as the observed.'' Those observations remain a fascinating reader's guide to the intricate web of Bloomsbury.
At the same time, he could be extraordinarily candid. In his biography of Virginia Woolf, he revealed for the first time that his aunt had been sexually molested by her half brothers Gerald and George Duckworth. In ''Bloomsbury Recalled,'' he expressed his anger at his father's Fascist leanings and at other aspects of the life around him.
He was born in London in 1910. His father was an art critic, his mother a painter. His parents separated when he was 6. After studying art in Paris in the 1930's, he had his first art exhibition. In 1937, his older brother, Julian, was killed in the Spanish Civil War. In 1947 Mr. Bell published his first book, ''On Human Finery,'' about fashion. That was followed by ''Those Impossible English'' (written with Helmut and Alison Gernsheim), ''The Schools of Design,'' ''Ruskin'' and ''Victorian Artists.''
Then, encouraged by his uncle Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf's husband, he embarked on his biography of his aunt. The two-volume ''Virginia Woolf'' became a cornerstone of Bloomsbury scholarship. In the book he described a visit from his aunt as ''a warm capricious breeze blowing in from the southwest and bringing with it a kind of amazed joy.'' In this and other works, Mr. Bell succeeded in demystifying the people in the Bloomsbury set, humanizing them and, at least by indirection, criticizing their lives and life styles.
He also wrote ''A New and Noble School: The Pre-Raphaelites,'' ''Techniques of Terra Cotta'' and ''The Brandon Papers,'' a novel.
He was a lecturer in art education at King's College, Newcastle, and professor of fine art at Oxford and the University of Leeds. He also held the chair of history and theory of art at the University of Sussex.
Mr. Bell is survived by his wife, Anne Olivier Bell, who edited ''The Diary of Virginia Woolf''; a son, Julian; two daughters, Virginia and Cressida, and a sister, Angelica Garnett of Forcalquier, France.
As the Bloomsbury industry expanded, and as biographies and memoirs proliferated, the Charleston farmhouse reopened to the public. A country house (and garden) filled with art and memorabilia, it quickly became a popular tourist site and a sacred place to admirers of the Bloomsbury group. In later years, Mr. Bell lived close to Charleston, but seldom revisited it.
''One feels rather like a ghost at Charleston,'' he said in an interview last year. Asked which Bloomsbury people he would like to see again, he said Roger Fry, who was ''one of the wisest and one of the kindest.'' Then he added that it might be amusing to see Virginia Woolf again, to remind her of her disparagement of him and to say, ''Well now, look what I've written about you.''
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Quentin Bell (1910-1996), the author of Virginia Woolf: A Biography, was the son of Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell.He was an artist like his mother, working across several media, and like his father Clive Bell, he was a writer and art critic.. He once recalled: "Virginia Woolf was my aunt and as a child I illustrated and to some extent inspired some rather fanciful biographies of ...
Quentin Bell was the son of Virginia's sister the artist Venessa Bell. Virginia and Vanessa were the daughters of the very prominent English Victorian Leslie Stephen. Stephen married Virginia's mother Julia after her first husband Herbert Duckworth died. The brothers accused of incest were sons from the first marriage and much older than ...
A must read for those interested in Virginia Woolf. Very detailed and well written. The book is a history of Virginia Woolf. A lot has been written about Virginia Woolf's life and her works; there is no need to add anything here. The most interesting thing about this biography was the voice of the writer: Quentin Bell who was Virginia's nephew.
As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the ...
I thought I would have to slog through it. On the contrary, it was a wonderful read, very hard to put down. Bell knows his subject, his aunt Virginia very well. But more important, he knows how to write a biography that informs, describes, explains and plain enchants us with the incredible personality of Virginia Woolf.
Virginia Woolf - A Biography. Paperback - January 1, 1972. Written by her own nephew, here is a unique biography of Virginia Woolf. Quentin Bell has written an authoritative, insightful biography of the world-famous writer and an extraordinary woman. "...quite simply the best biography of Virginia Woolf extant." -- New York Times Book Review.
Virginia Woolf : a biography by Bell, Quentin. Publication date 1990 Topics Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography Publisher London : Hogarth Press ... Mrs. Woolf, 1912-1941 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-10-26 11:06:14 Boxid IA40814623 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set
Nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an intimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, and revised for this new edition, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood, her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdowns of the years 1912-15; the ...
Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Volumes 1-2. Quentin Bell. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1972 - Biography & Autobiography - 530 pages. Using excerpts from family journals as well as pieces of Virginia's own correspondence and diaries, Bell has created an unparalleled portrait of his aunt and provides a view of Bloomsbury life as only a family member ...
`Virginia Woolf' by Quentin Bell, a nephew of the great writer, his father being the art critic Clive Bell (1881-1964) who married Virginia's sister Vanessa, is an excellent work which ascends to the highest standards in the art of biography. Originally published as two volumes in 1972, Bell takes us through all the major stages of Virginia's ...
Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Paperback - 26 April 1996. The standard life of Virginia Woolf, as fresh and exciting now as it was when it was first published in 1972. 'A work of art, evoking by his frankness and outstanding skill the vivid personality that cast a spell upon almost everyone lucky enough to know Mrs Woolf. ' Raymond Mortimer.
As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the ...
Quentin Bell's `Virginia Woolf' is a masterpiece of biography, drawing upon the extensive literary archives: letters, diaries, essays, polemics, and biographical writings and of course, the novels. It is an excellent introduction for anyone wishing to understand the background and genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers ...
`Virginia Woolf' by Quentin Bell, a nephew of the great writer, his father being the art critic Clive Bell (1881-1964) who married Virginia's sister Vanessa, is an excellent work which ascends to the highest standards in the art of biography. Originally published as two volumes in 1972, Bell takes us through all the major stages of Virginia's ...
Bell was a Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Sussex from 1967 to 1975. He sometimes worked as an artist, principally in ceramics, but for his career he was drawn to academia and to book-writing. Bell's biography of his famous aunt, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, 2 vols (London: Hogarth Press, 1972), won not only the James ...
Quentin Bell brings an impressive set of intellectual and genetic credentials to the task of unraveling the enigma of the "high priestess of Bloomsbury.". As the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell ...
Quentin Bell, author, artist, critic and biographer of his aunt Virginia Woolf, died on Monday at his home in Firle in East Sussex, England, near the Charleston farmhouse where he grew up at the ...
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