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Vanessa Bell, “Conversation Piece,” 1912. (University of California, San Diego)
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acandleandawick:
Indeed, I am amazed, a little alarmed (for as you have the children, the fame by rights belongs to me) by your combination of pure artistic vision and brilliance of imagination. […] I was hugely impressed, and kept on saying that your genius as a painter, though rather greater than I like, does still shed a ray on mine. I mean, people will say, What a gifted couple! Well: it would have been nicer had they said: Virginia had all the gifts; dear old Nessa was a domestic character - Alas, alas, they’ll never say that now.
Virginia Woolf, in a letter to her sister, Vanessa Bell. 2nd June 1926.
I haven’t seen this photo before; I love it.
It’s this kind of thing that reminds me that her letters are just as compelling and enjoyable as her novels.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgghhMV9r1qbmaxjo1_500.png)
I haven’t seen this photo before; I love it.Indeed, I am amazed, a little alarmed (for as you have the children, the fame by rights belongs to me) by your combination of pure artistic vision and brilliance of imagination. […] I was hugely impressed, and kept on saying that your genius as a painter, though rather greater than I like, does still shed a ray on mine. I mean, people will say, What a gifted couple! Well: it would have been nicer had they said: Virginia had all the gifts; dear old Nessa was a domestic character - Alas, alas, they’ll never say that now.
Virginia Woolf, in a letter to her sister, Vanessa Bell. 2nd June 1926.
It’s this kind of thing that reminds me that her letters are just as compelling and enjoyable as her novels.
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