Collection of 93 letters : various locations, to Richard Lipsett, 1978 May 29-2009 Dec. 28.

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Collection of 93 letters : various locations, to Richard Lipsett, 1978 May 29-2009 Dec. 28.

Collection consists of 55 t.l.s., 28 a.l.s., and 10 a.n.s. from Angelica Garnett to Richard Lipsett and one photocopy of a letter from Lipsett to "Milbs and Mollie." Subjects include Virginia Woolf; Vanessa Bell; the Berg Collection letters written by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell to each other; Charleston, the East Sussex country home of Vanessa Bell, her husband, Clive Bell, and her lover, Duncan Grant, which became a meeting place for the Bloomsbury Group; Duncan Grant; art historian Quentin Bell (Garnett's half-brother); biographers of Bloomsbury Group members and scholars of their works; and Angelica Garnett's personal life.

1 manuscript box (10 folders, 94 letters) : ill., ports. ; size varies + 82 envelopes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8191758

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961

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Vanessa Bell was born in 1879, daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and sister of Virginia Woolf. She studied art under Sir Arthur Cope and at the Royal Academy Schools under John Singer Sargent. In 1907 she married Clive Bell and worked mainly in London, Sussex and France. Vanessa Bell exhibited first at the New Gallery in 1905, and at the New English Art Club, the Allied Artists Association and at numerous London galleries. She became a member of the London Group in 1919 and her work was exhibited a...

Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978

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English painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gordon Square [London], to E. McKnight Kauffer, 1926 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269568682 Scottish designer. From the description of Postcard and autograph letter signed with initials : Wissett Lodge and 46, Gordon Square, to John Maynard Keynes, 1916 Apr. 3-ca. 1920 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269599197 Artist and member of the Bloomsbury Group. From the ...

Garnett, Angelica

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Epithet: 1942 née Bell 2nd wife of David Garnett British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000354 Angelica Garnett (b. 1918), the daughter of the artist Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister) and the artist Duncan Grant, believed until the age of 17 that her father was Clive Bell, her mother's husband and the man whose surname she bore. In 1942, she married the writer and publisher David Garnett (1892-1981), the...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...

Bell, Quentin D.

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Epithet: professor writer and artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000312 English artist. From the description of Autograph postcard signed : Saint-Tropez, to John Maynard Keynes, [1921?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 414567516 ...

Garnett, David, 1892-1981

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x00027b Richard Garnett (1835–1906) worked at the British Museum for 50 years, and became Keeper of Printed Books; he was the author of many biographies, histories of Italian and English literature, verse translations of European poetry, and a poet in his own right. His son, Edward (1868–1937), was a publisher's editor for over 50 ...