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Clive Bell

 

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Clive Bell : Art

'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia [Woolf], reading it in the midst of her [mental] illness, did not much appreciate it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Clive Bell : autobiographical essay

6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Bell      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Clive Bell : [journalism]

Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would have to be clipped to march in time with his.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      

  

Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al : Euphrosne

Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905: 'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 things in it wh. I ever want to read again, the Cat [by Strachey], Ningamus & the thing about the song, I forget its name.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      

 

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