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There is much of the comings and goings of the devoted admirers - Braque. Virgil Thomson, Lytton Strachey, Edith Sitwell, Ezra Pound. Ford Madox Ford and, of course, the young Hemingway -who sat in the atelier at 27 Rue de Fleurus reverently listening to the voice that Alice Toklas can still plainly hear - "deep, full, velvety like a great contralto's." She heard it last in a hospital room shortly before Gertrude was wheeled away for an operation that she did not survive: "By this time Gertrude Stein was in a sad state of indecision and worry. I sat next...
...whole generation of English readers the feeling that all the great Russians (Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) wrote in the same curiously flat style. With such parental credentials, "Bunny" Garnett became almost automatically a charter member of the post-World War I Bloomsbury group, which included Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster. Those earlier friendships he wrote of in the first two volumes of his autobiography-The Golden Echo and Flowers of the Forest. In the present volume he opens, with a necrology-a list of the old familiar faces that disappeared from his world in the 1930s...
...that conviction did not survive the Depression, when, says Garnett, suicide became the rage in Bloomsbury. The writer Dorothy Edwards stepped in front of a train; the poetess Cynthia Mengs, who had been "trying to break her neck for years," managed it in a steeplechase; Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey's longtime housekeeper and companion, shot herself and died with "a proud expression on her face." What were they suffering from? An illusion. Author Garnett now thinks, "as beautiful and as foolish as that which underlies Christianity: the belief that men naturally love one another...
Died. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 70, genteel English authoress, a lanky noblewoman whose needlepoint prose and aloof mien made her a leading light in the Bloomsbury Group of Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf (who portrayed her as the fantastic heroine of Orlando) and who herself, though home-educated in her family's 365-room castle, penned a tapestry of 33 books, from biographies (Daughter of France) to novels (No Signposts in the Sea) and a history of nursery rhymes; in Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England...
...wrote Lytton Strachey, "in which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid." Certainly, in Victorian England, island swelled into Empire, man's origins retreated from Adam to ape, man's progress advanced to antitoxins and turbines. But certainly, too, there was a precipitous drop from Disraeli to pestilent drains or from Darwin to shivering streetwalkers. Characteristically, it was an age of gaslight, which lighted the dark with a baleful glare, but produced furtive, disquieting shadows...