Bell, Quentin

Bell, Quentin, Bloomsbury (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968)... 

But for Quentin Bell as he sat listening to Keynes in the summer of 1938 it seemed Bloomsbury now had no future as anything but history. As suggested... 

See Quentin Bell, Bloomsbury (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968), p. 13 Thus Bloomsbury is always fair game because it can stand for whatever prey the sportsman wishes to kill and easy game because he can fire into the brown . For Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), F. R. Leavis (1895-1978) and D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) and Bloomsbury, see the section on Criticisms and Controversies in The Bloomsbury Group, ed. S.P. Rosenbaum (London Groom Helm/University of Toronto Press, 1975), pp. 329-407. For Clive Bell s challenge, see Bloomsbury in Old Friends (London Chatto C Windus, 1956), pp. 126-37, reprinted in Rosenbaum, The Bloomsbury Group. 

Noted in conversation with Quentin Bell. The reference is to custard powder, implying stodginess and dullness and by extension complacency and lack of imagination. 

Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf Writer and Personality , in Stape, Virginia Woolf Interviews and Recollections, p. 6. Quentin Bell also refers to this episode in Virginia Woolf A Biography, 1972 (repr. London Hogarth, 1982), vol. i, pp. 89-90. 

Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 18 March 1941, quoted in Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf, ii, p. 226. 

Biography became the controversial genre at this moment in Woolf and Bloomsbury studies, as it was for Woolf and her contemporaries in the 1920S and i930S. ° Quentin Bell elected to separate the life from the work , and chose not to discuss Woolf s writings. Jane Marcus commented ... 

Takes part in the Dreadnought Hoax (10 February). First Post-Impressionist Exhibition opens (8 November). Nephew Claudian [Quentin] Bell born (19 August). Does voluntary work for the women s suffrage campaign (January and November-December). 

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