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The Art of Dora Carrington by Jane Hill 9780713657265
Booksplease Price: €24.78At the age of 38, Dora Carrington (1893-1932) committed suicide, unable to contemplate living without her companion, Lytton Strachey, who had died a few weeks before. The association with Lytton and... -
Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian Julie Anne Taddeo 9781560233596
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.37Examine Lytton Strachey's struggle to create a new homosexual identity and voice through his life and work!This study of Lytton Strachey, one of the neglected voices of early twentieth-century... -
A Guide to Hospitals and Nursing - A Collection of Writings and Excerpts: With an Introductory Chapter by Lytton Strachey by Florence Nightingale 9781528716253
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528716253Author Florence NightingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read... -
Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold by Lytton Strachey 9780156027892
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027892Author Lytton StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher... -
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General Gordon by Lytton Strachey 9781646792801
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646792801Author Lytton StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher... -
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General Gordon by Lytton Strachey 9781646792818
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €32.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646792818Author Lytton StracheyFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher... -
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (1918) by Lytton Strachey 9781498144025
RRP: €59.44Booksplease Price: €47.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498144025Author Lytton StracheyFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (1918) by Lytton Strachey 9781169968622
RRP: €43.97Booksplease Price: €36.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169968622Author Lytton StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Frances Partridge: The Biography by Anne Chisholm 9780753826997
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography.Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century. She became part of the Bloomsbury... -
Bloomsbury's Outsider by Sarah Knights 9781448215454
Booksplease Price: €32.68The first biography of David Garnett goes beyond stereotype and myth and presents a clear sighted account of this often contradictory figure at the centre of literary London in the era of the... -
The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64'What had happened to the lost manuscripts, what train of chances took Rolfe to his death in Venice? The Quest continued'One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar, eccentric novel that... -
The Bloomsbury Look by Wendy Hitchmough 9780300277913
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €21.79A landmark study of how the famed Bloomsbury Group developed their distinct aesthetic "Fascinating and wide-ranging. . . . Will be enjoyed by both Bloomsbury aficionados and newcomers alike... -
The Progress of a Biographer by Hugh Kingsmill 9781032224510
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.47First published in 1949, The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths, which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by, but which churches and... -
Scheherazade or the Future of the English Novel Thamyris or Is There a Future for Poetry? Saxo Grammaticus Deucalion or the Future of Literary Criticism: Today and Tomorrow Volume Twenty-One by John Carruthers
Booksplease Price: €84.41ScheherazadeOr the Future of the English NovelJohn CarruthersOriginally published in 1928"A brilliant essay..." Daily HeraldA survey of contemporary fiction in England and America lends to the... -
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour Fay Blanchard 9781781301333
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.37This publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). Described in 1923 as 'the most important woman painter in... -
English Literature Between the Wars by B. Ifor Evans 9781032169316
Booksplease Price: €122.80First published in 1948, English Literature Between the Wars sets out to answer a question: to what extent did the years between the two wars constitute a period in literature? Its exploration leads... -
Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression by Nino Strachey
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'I wanted to climb inside this book and live there' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Superb, sparky and reflective' The Spectator'Gender... -
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.27The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell. Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure,... -
Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts 9781857992137
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History... -
English Literature Between the Wars by B. Ifor Evans 9781032169323
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.47First published in 1948, English Literature Between the Wars sets out to answer a question: to what extent did the years between the two wars constitute a period in literature? Its exploration leads... -
After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain Peter Mandler 9781138006584
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation',... -
Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression Nino Strachey 9781529306934
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.30'Entirely original and thrilling . . . this is Gatsby made real' JULIET NICOLSON'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYESIn the 1920s a new generation stepped forward to... -
Shakespeare in Bloomsbury Marjorie Garber 9780300281880
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.50The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group "A spirited dance of minds."-Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men and women of the... -
Virginia Woolf Michael Rosenthal 9781032541426
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.43First published in 1979, Virginia Woolf is an original critical study of where the author considers Virginia Woolf's non-fiction as well as fiction, exploring the different ways Woolf sought to... -
Virginia Woolf by Robin Majumdar
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €55.19This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as... -
Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921 by Anindyo Roy
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian... -
Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf by Deborah Parsons 9780415285421
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €99.70Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences... -
Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature by Milena Radeva-Costello 9780367663414
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature explores the relationship between British literature and philanthropy at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining... -
Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf by Deborah Parsons
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences... -
Autobiography by John Robson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand... -
The Quotable Voltaire by Garry Apgar 9781684482917
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €41.33The author of more than 2,000 books and pamphlets, Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) was one of the most prolific writers of the eighteenth century, and also one of the wittiest and most... -
The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West by Emmanuel Cooper 9780415111010
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €57.24First published in 1986 to wide critical acclaim, The Sexual Perspective broke new ground by bringing together and discussing the painting, sculpture and photography of artists who were... -
Is There Life Without Mother?: Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity by Leonard Shengold 9780881633368
Booksplease Price: €79.53In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to... -
Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa and Carrington Mary Ann Caws 9780815359753
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.54Originally published in 1990, Women of Bloomsbury takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and Dora Carrington. Connected by more than bonds of friendship and... -
A Double Thread by John Gross 9780099422266
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.27John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet... -
Shakespeare in Bloomsbury by Marjorie Garber 9780300267563
Booksplease Price: €30.63The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group "A spirited dance of minds."-Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men and women of the... -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden... -
Virginia Woolf by Dorothy Brewster
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.54Originally published in 1962, Virginia Woolf, provides a commentary on the literary work of Virginia Woolf - examining not only her the novels, but also the considerable body of criticism surrounding... -
Henry James as a Biographer: A Self Among Others by Willie Tolliver 9781138975958
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88This study of Henry James's biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Wetmore Story offers an argument that he deserves greater recognition for his contributions to the development of biography,... -
Biography Alan Shelston 9781138283947
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.54First published in 1977, this book explores biography in the post-Renaissance period and investigates some of the problems implicit in this literary form. The introduction considers various aspects...