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Zusatztext Jane Dunn's astute account of their relationship is a revealing pleasure. Informationen zum Autor Jane Dunn is the author of six acclaimed biographies: Moon in Eclipse : A Life of Mary Shelley; Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy ; Antonia White: A Life ; Read My Heart: A Love Story in the Age of Revolution : Dorothy Osborne & Sir William Temple; Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing ; and the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens . She has subsequently written a series of historical romances set in England during the Napoleonic Wars. Jane Dunn is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Berkshire with her husband, the linguist Nicholas Ostler. Klappentext This is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The influence they exerted over each others lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and also their intense rivalry is explored here with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkably artistic women who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group is revealed with all its intricacies in this moving biography. Vorwort A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group Zusammenfassung A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group
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Jane Dunn is the author of six acclaimed biographies: Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley; Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy; Antonia White: A Life; Read My Heart: A Love Story in the Age of Revolution: Dorothy Osborne & Sir William Temple; Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing; and the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. She has subsequently written a series of historical romances set in England during the Napoleonic Wars. Jane Dunn is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Berkshire with her husband, the linguist Nicholas Ostler.