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- Virginia Nicholson (née Bell; born 1955) is an English non-fiction author known for her works of women's history in the first half of the twentieth century. Nicholson was born in Newcastle and grew up in Leeds before becoming a television researcher.
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Virginia Nicholson (née Bell; born 1955) is an English non-fiction author known for her works of women's history in the first half of the twentieth century. Nicholson was born in Newcastle and grew up in Leeds before becoming a television researcher.
Biography. I was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1955. My father was the art historian and writer Quentin Bell, acclaimed for his biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf. My mother Anne Olivier Bell – the best of role models - edited the five volumes of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries. Virginia reading, Duncan Grant, 1961.
Apr 11, 2024 · In All the Rage, the incomparable Virginia Nicholson, shaped and armed by her unconventional childhood among the Bloomsbury Set, is unafraid of skewering the social conventions that bound her generation. The tragedy of the myth of beauty, Nicholson shows, is that it was never a myth.
Nicholson, the great-niece of Virginia Woolf, has written acclaimed books saluting the women of both world wars. In this work, she again musters voices to profound and deeply political effect. The image of the perfect stay-at-home wife, as she puts it, still refuses to lie down and die.
Virginia Nicholson is a social historian. She was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1955 and grew up in Leeds and Sussex. She was educated at Lewes Priory School (comprehensive) and went on to study English Literature at King’s College Cambridge.
Aug 17, 2024 · Nicholson, the author of six previous books on subjects ranging from Bloomsbury bohemia to 1950s femininity, introduces each chapter of her rollicking history — which focuses on the...
Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex, and studied at Cambridge University. She lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for the BBC.
