![]() ![]() Treasured by her family and friends as a brilliant, witty, and original presence, Virginia also had enormous mood swings and terrible headaches, was sociable until she collapsed, was depressed until she was writing, then depressed again as a book was finished and publication loomed. ![]() This was the Bloomsbury group, named after the unpretentious area of London where many of them lived it was a world of plain living and high thinking-“Gloomsbury,” the high-living, plain-thinking Vita would call it. ![]() ![]() Virginia’s husband, Leonard, was a political journalist and editor. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, and Roger Fry. Their intimate circle included Lytton Strachey, E.M. Her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, was married to a prominent art critic, Clive Bell, though she lived with another painter, Duncan Grant. Julia Margaret Cameron, the great Victorian photographer, was her aunt. Virginia belonged by descent and marriage to Britain’s elite of arts and letters: her father, Leslie Stephen, had been a distinguished intellectual whose first wife was Thackeray’s daughter. Most of her published writing consisted of unsigned book reviews, so she was known to very few people. When Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West in December 1922, she had just published, at the age of forty, the first of her distinctive novels, Jacob’s Room, which followed the more traditional The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919). ![]()
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