![]() They were prolific correspondents and diarists, and there is a wealth of existing primary material.” Though it was no doubt a challenge to find “enough room for invention in the negative spaces they left behind,” she has richly succeeded in that venture. ![]() A book that did not emerge from this frequently visited terrain is a journal written by Vanessa Bell, Woolf’s older sister and a painter of some renown - a missing piece of Bloomsbury that Priya Parmar brilliantly creates in her new novel, Vanessa and Her Sister.Īs the author acknowledges, “It is not easy to fictionalize the Bloomsbury Group, as their lives are so well documented. One would think the subject had been exhausted, but not so. Readers and admirers of Virginia Woolf and her milieu are no doubt aware of the ever-expanding shelves of books - fiction, diaries, letters, biographies, essays, photo albums, scholarly books, and more - that focus on virtually every aspect of what came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. ![]()
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