Frances Partridge: Love in Bloomsbury

UK/USA 2014, 240 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 19.95
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I.B. Tauris
The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora, and Lytton Strachey was one of the most notorious (Frances loved Ralph, who loved Dora, who loved Lytton, who loved ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Whitaker (R): Portrait of a Marriage

UK 2008, engl.OF, engl.UT, 219 min., € 29.95
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BBC
Drama following the scandalous relationship between historian, Harold Nicolson, novelist, Vita Sackville-West, and her lover, Violet Keppel, in post WWI England. Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West appear to have the perfect marriage, but beneath the glossy veneer, Nicolson is a fervent homosexual, constantly away from home, pursuing new conquests. Vita, happy at first to go along with her husband's ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Hampton (R): Carrington

UK 1995, engl. OF, dt./ital./span. SF, engl./dt./ital./span./niederl./portug./grch. UT, 122 min., € 18.99
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MGM
The story of Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson), the beautiful but unhappy English painter, and her relationship with gay writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). In the years after World War One the couple experimented with their relationship by breaking all the taboos of old England, as they struggled to live as freely and honestly as was possible. Amid the trendy, bohemian ... Weiterlesen

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Diary

USA 1954, 355 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Harvest
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, »A Writer's Diary« was collected by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of 27 years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those that are clearly writing exercises, accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work, ... Weiterlesen