Bloomsbury Women

Bloomsbury Women
Author: Jan Marsh
Publsiher: Pavilion
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Art and literature
ISBN: 1862054509

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An illustrated overview of the women in the Bloomsbury circle (a group who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century that influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality). This work focuses on the Bloomsbury Group's rich and diverse artistic output. The color as well as black-and-white reproductions of paintings, textile designs, photographs and line drawings are dominated by the works of Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington and Duncan Grant.

Bloomsbury Girls

Bloomsbury Girls
Author: Natalie Jenner
Publsiher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781250276704

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"Delightful." --People, Pick of the Week *Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Katie Couric Media, the CBC, the Globe and Mail, BookBub, POPSUGAR, SheReads, Women.com and more!* Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world in Bloomsbury Girls. Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans: Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish Vivien has a long list of grievances--most of them well justified and the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the Head of Fiction. Grace Perkins: Married with two sons, she's been working to support the family following her husband's breakdown in the aftermath of the war. Torn between duty to her family and dreams of her own. Evie Stone: In the first class of female students from Cambridge permitted to earn a degree, Evie was denied an academic position in favor of her less accomplished male rival. Now she's working at Bloomsbury Books while she plans to remake her own future. As they interact with various literary figures of the time--Daphne Du Maurier, Ellen Doubleday, Sonia Blair (widow of George Orwell), Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, and others--these three women with their complex web of relationships, goals and dreams are all working to plot out a future that is richer and more rewarding than anything society will allow.

Women of Bloomsbury

Women of Bloomsbury
Author: Mary Ann Caws
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781351119764

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Originally published in 1990, Women of Bloomsbury takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and Dora Carrington. Connected by more than bonds of friendship and artistic endeavour, the three women faced similar struggles. Juxtaposing their personal lives and their work, Mary Ann Caws shows us with feeling and clarity the pain women suffer in being artists and in finding – or creating – their sense of self. Relying on unpublished letters and diaries, as well as familiar texts, Caws give us a portrait of the female self in the act of creation.

British Women s Writing from Bront to Bloomsbury Volume 2

British Women s Writing from Bront   to Bloomsbury  Volume 2
Author: Adrienne E. Gavin,Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783030385286

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This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historicallycontextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessingboth canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscapeof women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each ofits volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s continues the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorianwomen’s writing distinctly within the 1860s and 1870s. Covering a range of fictional approaches,including short stories, religiously inflected novels, and comic writing the volume’s 16 original essaysconsider such developments as the sensation craze, the impact of new technologies, and the careeropportunities opening for women. Centrally, it reassesses key nineteenth-century female authors inthe context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helpedto shape the literary landscape of the 1860s and 1870s.

American Bloomsbury

American Bloomsbury
Author: Susan Cheever
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007-09-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780743264624

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A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.

Women s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England

Women   s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England
Author: Valerie Wayne
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781350110038

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This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered rags for paper production, invested in books and oversaw the presses that printed them. Their writing and reading had an impact on their contemporaries and the developing literary canon. A focus on women's work enables these essays to recognize the various forms of labour -- textual and social as well as material and commercial -- that women of different social classes engaged in. Those considered include the very poor, the middling sort who were active in the book trade, and the elite women authors and readers who participated in literary communities. Taken together, these essays convey the impressive work that women accomplished and their frequent collaborations with others in the making, marking, and marketing of early modern English books.

Bloomsbury Guide to Women s Literature

Bloomsbury Guide to Women s Literature
Author: Claire Buck
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1184
Release: 1994
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:1244518818

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The Hidden History of American Fashion

The Hidden History of American Fashion
Author: Nancy Deihl
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-02-08
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781350000483

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This book is the first in-depth exploration of the revolutionary designers who defined American fashion in its emerging years and helped build an industry with global impact, yet have been largely forgotten. Focusing on female designers, the authors reclaim a place in history for the women who created not only for celebrities and socialites, but for millions of fashion-conscious customers across the United States. From one of America's first couturiers, Jessie Franklin Turner, to Zelda Wynn Valdes, the book captures the lost histories of the luminaries who paved the way in the world of American fashion design. This fully illustrated collection takes us from Hollywood to Broadway, from sportswear to sustainable fashion, and explores important crossovers between film, theater, and fashion. Uncovering fascinating histories of the design pioneers we should know about, the book enlarges the prevailing narrative of fashion history and will be an important reference for fashion students, historians, costume curators, and fashion enthusiasts alike.