Roadcraft by Police Foundation
These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly detective work. Six of them focus on four pivotal members of the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia Woolf, the artist Vanessa Bell (Virginia's sister), the art critic Clive Bell (Vanessa's husband), and the artist and art critic Roger Fry (Vanessa's lover). Prominent ingredients of their story include art, writing, friendship, love, sex, mental illness, and Greek travel. The five 'out of Bloomsbury' essays are about the correspondence and friendship between the novelist Rose Macaulay and the Irish poet and novelist Katharine Tynan; the prodigious talents of the teenage Dorothy L. Sayers, future detective novelist, religious writer, and translator of Dante; the remarkable paternity and eventful life of J. R. R. Tolkien's schoolteacher Richard Williams Reynolds; and the professionally and personally crucial first visit to Portugal made by the artist Tristram Hillier. The collection combines homogeneity and variety, creating a rich and entertaining picture of the British cultural scene in the first half of the twentieth century.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780117021686 |
| ISBN 10 | 0117021687 |
| Title | Roadcraft |
| Author | Police Foundation |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | TSO |
| Year published | 2007-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 191 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |