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Poets, monsters & vampyres – a Romantic walking tour
Shoppers on Marchmont Street in Bloomsbury may have noticed a blue plaque that appeared a little while ago at No. 87, to commemorate Percy Bysshe Shelley’s and Mary Shelley’s time in a house that once stood on the site. But what is perhaps less well known is that just a few streets beyond the northern and eastern boundaries […]
From Down Under to Hollywood (via Bloomsbury) – the colourful life of Elizabeth von Arnim
March 29, 2011
Question: What do Sydney, New Zealand, the antipodean novelist Katherine Mansfield, Prussian aristocracy, Bertrand Russell’s brother, Bloomsbury, Bette Davis, H. G. Wells and Hollywood all have in common? Answer: Elizabeth von Arnim. The woman who links all these things was born Mary Annette Beauchamp (1866 – 1941), in the New Zealand township of Kiribilly Point. Her parents, Henry Herron Beauchamp […]
The Bloomsbury Group: art, literature, money, sex & suicide
March 28, 2011
The Bloomsbury Group was an informal, early 20th century salon of influential artists and intellectuals who lived in or regularly visited Bloomsbury and its surrounds. At different times, several of them occupied homes on Tavistock Square, and on the eastern side of leafy Gordon Square, below (see map at bottom of page). Leonard Woolf wrote in […]
London Bytes
- View of the week: Alien doppelgänger March 28, 2013 Belinda
- Noam Chomsky @ British Library March 27, 2013 Belinda
- View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern March 12, 2013 Belinda
July 21, 2011
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