Vanessa Stephen


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Noun1.Vanessa Stephen - English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
Vanessa Bell, Bell
Bloomsbury Group - an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles
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P29: Young Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Stephen playing cricket at Talland House, St Ives, by unknown photographer, 1893-94.
Get a real taste of the Bloomsbury set's life; They were known for their poetry and prose but Virginia Woolf and co. were also good in the kitchen a new book reveals. Richard Edmonds learns more
It details the mass of objects he brought with him, after his marriage to Vanessa Stephen: among other things, cases of wine, piles of pictures, a bicycle, guns, as well as carts and vans, one piled high with books, all filling the road outside the house.
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His protagonist, Beatrice Campbell-Bennett, is a disconsolate member of the English social elite whose unfashionable spiritual yearnings and unrequited love for Vanessa Stephen, Virginia Woolf's less famous sister, impel her to embark for Turkish-ruled Palestine in 1906, where she intends to paint the flowers of the Bible.
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LUCA is Llasa Apso who lives with his owner, Vanessa Stephen in Cambuslang, near Glasgow.
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