A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf - Hardcover

Dunn, Jane

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9780712651189: A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

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ISBN 10: 0712651187 ISBN 13: 9780712651189

Publisher: Pimlico, 1991

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This biography examines the special relationship between the sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. The author has also written "Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley".

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Review:

An outstanding work, and reading it is a source of real pleasure ... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to date (LITERARY REVIEW)

Her unlayering of this complex relationship is subtle and far-reaching ...The wealth of the material makes possible some of the brilliant equations to be found in this book (SUNDAY TIMES)

Dunn plunges deep beneath the surface to the complicated emotions and personalities of these two women, illuminating them with great clarity and understanding. (OBSERVER)

Jane Dunn's astute account of their relationship is a revealing pleasure. (INDEPENDENT)

Book Description:

* A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group
* 'It is almost too true and too moving to be read by a close relation' Quentin Bell

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