Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff s delightful travelogue about her bucket list trip to LondonWhen devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English publication of 84, Charing Cross Road in which she shares two decades o[...]

Bell's extraordinary memoir of the influential Bloomsbury group, a circle of intellectual giants that gathered in London in the early part of this century.[...]

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's[...]

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighbourhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life [...]

'A subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury Group...S P Rosenbaum is an unparalleled interpreter of the philosophical as well as the literary traditions absorbed by this group.' Richard Ellman 'This is more detailed, more considered, more extensive, and therefore far more valuable than anything[...]

Published to accompany a major international exhibition of the Bloomsbury painters originating at the Tate Gallery in London and traveling to the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Gallery. This catalogue traces the artists' development over several decades and assesses their contrib[...]

Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The "Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide "features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves. [...]

If you are a writer, editor, journalist, ad slogan compiler, poet, lyricist, student or teacher, a rhyming dictionary is an essential research tool that you shouldn't be without! Packed with useful information in an accessible format, the Bloomsbury Rhyming Dictionary is fun and easy to use. A simpl[...]

A Spiritual Bloomsbury is an exploration of how three English writers-Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood-sought to come to terms with their homosexuality by engagement with Hinduism. Copley reveals how these writers came to terms with their inner conflicts and were led in the [...]

This is a guide to the use of euphemisms and art of polite conversation. Over 3,000 euphemisms are presented in contextual essays supported by an alphabetical index. Suited for close reading or reference use, the book examines the origins of euphemisms and includes popular examples.[...]

Born in 1891 in St Petersburg, Lydia Lopokova lived a long and remarkable life. Her vivacious personality and the sheer force of her charm propelled her to the top of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Through a combination of luck, determination and talent, Lydia became a star in Paris, a vaudeville favour[...]

Virginia Woolf was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Her involvement in the lively and controversial Bloomsbury Group was a significant part of both her personal and creative lives. This book explores Woolf's early life and family, the origins and activities of the Bloomsbu[...]