VANESSA BELL & VIRGINIA WOOLF—A Very Close Conspiracy—Jane Dunn

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First-Edition HARDCOVER of: • “A VERY CLOSE CONSPIRACY:VANESSA BELL and VIRGINIA WOOLF” (Little, Brown & Company, 1990) (Hardcover, First Edition) • BY JANE DUNN • ABOUT THIS TITLE: “A brilliant analysis of the lifelong relationship between the sisters VANESSA BELL and VIRGINIA WOOLF, A VERY CLOSE CONSPIRACY not only throws new light on the characters of both women but is fascinating in itself. It is an enthralling and perceptive study of the bond that profoundly shaped the lives of the two women who were the magnetic center of the famous intellectual circle known as BLOOMSBURY…. “Like many close pairs of sisters, VANESSA and VIRGINIA divided their world in two. VANESSA was the artist, VIRGINIA the writer, but it went much deeper. VANESSA was the practical one, the one who deferred to men, the one who had taken up the mantle of their dead mother. She was the sensualist, the maternal figure, the inspired creator of homes and circles of friends, the goddess DEMETER. “VIRGINIA was the quick-witted, verbal one, judged a genius from childhood on, the one who renounced traditional femininity for the life of the mind. Whenever one trespassed on her sister’s territory, the other winced. And yet they adored each other. All through their lives, through the writing and painting, the marriages and liaisons, the sisterly bond remained central…. Throughout this absorbing volume, JANE DUNN’s great strength is her ability to bring out the nuances in the intimacy between VANESSA and VIRIGINIA…. She explores the psychological tensions in the STEPHENS family, with the ‘angel in the house’ mother, an ideal of Victorian womanhood who died too young for her daughters to see behind the myth, and the intellectually distinguished father who denied his daughters any formal education while delighting in VIRGINIA’s wit and intelligence…. “From the full-lipped, mysterious VANESSA wielding a paintbrush to the ethereal, intense VIRGINIA wearing her dead mother’s dress, this volume offers a peerless diptych of two distinct individuals and artists, two beautifully complicit sisters…. “No member of the family, not even the half-brother who molested VIRGINIA over many years, is drawn without sympathy and understanding. What emerges from JANE DUNN’s treatment of the STEPHENS family is a compelling, carefully shaded picture of several extraordinary people and the social world to which they belonged….” —THE PUBLISHER • “A VERY CLOSE CONSPIRACY is less a joint biography than an investigation into the dynamics of friendship and sibling rivalry, maternal solicitude and mutual need. Rather than pursuing a chronological, linear narrative, MS. DUNN…explores the interdependency of the sisters through the themes of their lives: the tension between life and art, familial ties and freedom, intellectuality and instinct, emotional balance and insanity.”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “This addition to the growing body of work on members of the Bloomsbury group provides a welcome overview and will appeal to readers not familiar with WOOLF’s life, as well as to her fans.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “An outstanding work, and reading it is a source of real pleasure.” —JANET BARRON, LITERARY REVIEW • “With sensitivity and imagination, Britisher DUNN re-creates the fascination, dependencies, competition, ‘complicity,’ jealousies, the whole range of ‘dynamics’ expressed in the pathologically close sibling relationship between two beautiful, talented, brilliant, intense, and creative women. DUNN structures her book on how the two sisters responded to the same influences…. DUNN believes that the sisters tacitly divided the world between VIRGINIA’s intelligence, articulateness, ``fame,'' and antipathy to sex, and VANESSA’s image as love-goddess, centered, beloved, fertile, visual, sensual. Using diaries, letters, VIRGINIA’s novels, and reports, DUNNanatomizes every incident, motive, and fleeting expression as symptoms of (or compensations for) the losses and afflictions of childhood….” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “This well-written, well-documented study of the STEPHEN sisters' relationship is organized thematically rather than chronologically to describe the strong devotion and mutual dependence of BELL and WOOLF as well as their different ways of dealing with parents, marriage, and the deaths of family members. While both were committed artists who encouraged and inspired each other's work, DUNN argues that they were also intensely competitive, but because they had different talents and personalities, they were able to excel in different spheres of their personal and professional lives and thus coexist.”—LIBRARY JOURNAL • “This is the fascinating story of two remarkable women – the extrovert woman of letters Virginia Woolf and her introvert sisters, the visual artist VANESSA BELL—both now acknowledged masters in their own field. With empathy and finesse JANE DUNN mange to convey the many dimensions in these formidable women’s relationship—from their youth in late Victorian times until their death in 1941 and 1961 respectively…. We follow the sisters through a life with ups and downs, through tragedies and successes described with profound understanding by JANE DUNN. In this well researched biography we get a unique insight into both sister’s mind and the complex relationship they had to their brothers and half-brothers, husbands, lovers and friends.”—LEIF ASBJØRNSEN, AMAZON REVIEW • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “A VERY CLOSE CONSPIRACY: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf” AUTHOR: JANE DUNN TYPE: HARDCOVERPAGES: 338 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Little, Brown & Company (Boston), 1990 EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 0-316-19653-3 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD.Price (29.99) is unclipped. Corners are rubbed. Spine tips are bumped. DJ is lightly age-toned w/ light scratching on sides. All else, bright & clean. (In a Damco protective cover, which has light scuffs & smudges.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD.Book is square. Boards are clean with corners. 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