#angelica garnett

[internatlvelvet]

Vanessa Bell, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell, Leonard Woolf and Angelica Bell with Spaniel Sally at Monk's House, Rodmell

1940

[freyafrida]

dancing in this world alone inspo (from deceived with kindness by angelica garnett)

[noxaeternaetc]

"Vanessa was teased by the others for her silences but they were an indication of what lay beneath, almost like a piece of semi-opaque glass let into the floor through which, when the light was favourable, one might be lucky enough to glimpse things usually hidden. One of these was her shy determination to be a painter, the other her capacity for deep feeling, in which she herself may have found something disconcerting and even frightening. The whole cast of her mind, unenquiring and passive, was opposed to analysis: unlike Virginia, she never learnt to project the light of self-questioning onto her own behaviour. Instead she clung to a hope that all problems could be solved by rationalising them, and that there was somewhere a perfect system that would do away with threatening or painful situations."

Angelica Garnett about her mother the artist Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf in Deceived with kindness: a Bloomsbury childhood, 1984.

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Angelica Garnett (1918–2012) Edward Le Bas (1904–1966) Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

[masterblackoak]

“On Vanessa’s emergence from the kitchen she and Duncan would retire down the long passage to the studio, which was half work-room and half sitting-room, redolent of oil and turpentine. Easels and paintboxes stood about, brushes, sometimes festooned with cobwebs, emerged from jugs or jam jars, palettes and tubes of paint lay on stools or tables, while there was often a bunch of red-hot pokers and dahlias arranged in front of a piece of drapery. The gun-powder-coloured walls were hung with canvases of many shapes and sizes, and some of Duncan’s favourite objects, such as a jointed ~ or rather disjointed ~ Sicilian wooden horse, a silver table-watch once given by her admirers to Lydia Lopokova, a fan and perhaps a child’s drawing, could be seen balanced on the mantelpiece or pinned to a spare piece of wall.”

(This passage comes from a book called Deceived with Kindness, which was written by Angelica Garnett.)

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Duncan Grant, Interior with Artist's Daughter, Angelica Vanessa Bell, 17yo, 1918/2012

Conscientious objector, Duncan Grant and his new lover, David Garnett, forced by the court to have their status recognized, established themselves as farmers. In 1916, Vanessa Bell found them a house, Charleston Farmhouse, located near Firle, in Sussex. All three then moved in together. Vanessa having separated from her husband Clive Bell. From a brief romance between Duncan and Vanessa, born in 1918 a daughter Angelica convinced that her father is Clive Bell… Angelica will marry David Garnett, the former lover of her biological father Duncan Grant, in 1942

Duncan Grant (British/Scottish, 1885-1978) • Interior with Artist's Daughter • 1935

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Non-Work Reading, 2023

Emma Cline, The Guest, The Girls

Alexander Stille, The Sullivinians

Barbara Trapido, Temples of Delight

Elizabeth Mavor, A Green Equinox

Cesare Pavese, The Beautiful Summer

Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry White, Ways of Eating

Angelica Garnett, Deceived with Kindness

Olivia Laing, Funny Weather

Claire Messud, The Burning Girl

Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour

Lauren Elkin, No. 91/92

Lisa Appignenesi, Everyday Madness

Leonardo Sciascia, The Moro Affair

Leah Ypi, Free

John Berger, To the Wedding

Sigrid Nuñez, A Feather on the Breath of God

Deborah Levy, August Blue

Hilary Mantel, Giving Up the Ghost

Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

Nawal El Saadawi, Love in the Kingdom of Oil

Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad

[nina-silvertuin]

just learned about angelica bell and david garnett's marriage

im gonna throw up

[internatlvelvet]

Portrait of Angelica Garnett, 1940, Duncan Gran

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Eve Best as Vanessa Bell

Life In Squares (2015)

[noxaeternaetc]

"She reminded me of a mountain covered with snow: at it's summit the sun shone with warmth and splendour, and there was a sweetness and gaiety in the air. Further down the clouds gathered, plunging the lower, more and more slopes into darkness. At the center of the mountain ran a deep river, glimpsed only at intervals, when it surged through a rift in the hillside with unexpected and disconcerting power. It is strange that, given this power, Vanessa seems to have left behind a memory less substantial than one might expect. Perhaps this is simply the effect of a complex personality difficult to define and therefore to remember, and perhaps it is also the consequence of her own reticence - her dislike of a public image. In order to understand Vanessa, one has to accept and enter her private world, a world from which she excluded all except her most cherished friends and relations, but within which she created a dazzling interior."

Angelica Garnett about her mother Vanessa Bell, artist and sister of Virginia Woolf, from Deceived with kindness: a Bloomsbury childhood, 1984.

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Vanessa Bell, Interior with Artist’s Daughter, 1935.

[masterblackoak]

“In the far-away basement Mrs Harland, Maynard’s cook, presided over the shining kitchen range. Tiny and vivacious, she had the skin of a wild rose, and seemed always to be making pastry. Rows of jam tarts covered the well-scrubbed kitchen table, their jewelled centres suggesting fragments of stained glass or the rings on Nessa’s dressing-table. I was often given a lick of jam or a piece of cake to celebrate my visits to that subterranean region…��  

(This passage comes from a book called Deceived with Kindness, which was written by Angelica Garnett.)

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Book haul from kennys.ie

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official and honorary female members of the bloomsbury group

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Duncan Grant lived with Virginia Woolf's sister, the artist Vanessa Bell at Charleston Farmhouse near Firle in Sussex England. Although Grant was mostly interested in men as sexual partners he did father Vanessa's daughter, Angelica. One of Duncan's lovers, David Garnett, made the comment when Angelica was born that she was so beautiful he would like to marry her some day. Twenty or so years later that is exactly what he did. Angelica went through the early part of her life believing that Vanessa's husband, Clive Bell, was her father. Vanessa and Clive had an open marriage and both had various lovers. But they remained married to each other for the rest of their lives. Clive and Vanessa carried on an appearance of being Angelica's biological parents although Clive knew that Duncan was Angelica's father. I visited Charleston Farmhouse in 2005. It is a work of art in itself with furniture and fireplaces painted with elaborate designs by the two artists. The wallpapers and furniture upholsteries were also designed by Duncan and Vanessa. The studio where the two artists painted has their paintings hung up and in some cases resting on the floor against a wall. There were a couple of Duncan's paintings on display that were very homoerotic. One nude in particular of a very well put together man.

Untitled by Duncan Grant. 1 of 422 erotic postcards drawn by Duncan Grant between 1946-59. The postcards were given to Edward Le Bas in 1959 and were thought to have been destroyed by Le Bas's sister upon his death in 1966. They in fact bounced from owner to owner until they ended up in the possession of theatre designer Norman Coates, who kept the drawings under his bed. Coates donated the drawings to the Charleston Trust. The drawings are estimated to be worth $2 million dollars.