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Loading... Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939by Virginia Nicholson
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) Cr00 | Apr 1, 2023 |  They were the bohemians and I have been reading books about their individual lives for thirty years. Virginia Nicholson is Vanessa Bell's grand-daughter, daughter of Quentin Bell who also wrote books I have read. This book barely mentions Virginia Woolf her namesake, but then Virginia Woolf was not a bohemian. So many familiar names..Ottoline Morrell, Carrington, Bunny Garrnett and all of them fascinating. (  ) Karen74Leigh | Apr 9, 2020 | That said I do feel I learned a lot and have a pretty good feel for that lifestyle and period of time and it was well worth reading. The author does get into not just the cutler of Bohemia but the culture of the times that it was rebelling against, which did often put much of their behavior into a much clearer light and allowed me to make my own conclusions about their lives despite the rose colored glasses worn by the author. (  ) Kellswitch | Jan 1, 2012 |  )1  piemouth | Jun 11, 2010 | Not only a biography of a number of well-known artists, novelists, playwrights and so on, it is an entertaining look at a time which has parallels with our own. Well worth a read. (  )3 broughtonhouse | Mar 31, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
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Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand experiment. Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, broke and hungry but they were rebels. In this fascinating book Virginia Nicholson examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives. 'Interesting, gorgeous, wonderful.... this book displays the best of bohemia itself - playful, dazzling, original' Julie Burchill, Spectator 'Racy, vivacious, warm-hearted. Offers an illuminating and well-researched portrait of life among the artists, a century ago' TLS Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She has worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television and her first book, Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden(written in collaboration with her father, Quentin Bell), was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother, the painter Vanessa Bell. Her second book, Among the Bohemians- Experiments in Living 1900-1939, was published by Penguin in 2002. She lives in Sussex. %%%Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand experiment. Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, broke and hungry but they were rebels. In this fascinating book Virginia Nicholson examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives. 'Interesting, gorgeous, wonderful.... this book displays the best of bohemia itself - playful, dazzling, original' Julie Burchill, Spectator 'Racy, vivacious, warm-hearted. Offers an illuminating and well-researched portrait of life among the artists, a century ago' TLS Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She has worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television and her first book, Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden(written in collaboration with her father, Quentin Bell), was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother, the painter Vanessa Bell. Her second book, Among the Bohemians- Experiments in Living 1900-1939, was published by Penguin in 2002. She lives in Sussex. No library descriptions found. |
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