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Chapter 24 - Bloomsbury Afterlives
from Coda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2025
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This chapter examines how the friendships, loves, jealousies, anecdotes, and conversations of the Bloomsbury members, recorded in various auto/biographical sources, have been dramatized and novelized in several contemporary bioplays and biographical novels: Bloomsbury: A Play in Two Acts (1974) by Peter Luke; But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury (2006) by Gillian Freeman; Vanessa and Virginia (2008) by Susan Sellers; and Vanessa and Her Sister (2014) by Priya Parmar. The chapter focuses more particularly on the character of Virginia, who plays a crucial role in the intellectual and emotional dynamics of the group, and analyzes her interactions with her friends, especially Lytton, and her relationships with her family members, especially Vanessa. These posthumous literary representations of the iconic author raise questions about the resurrection and transposition of the historical figure in fiction and drama, as well as about updating and recycling her literary heritage for today’s readers and spectators.
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- A History of the Bloomsbury Group , pp. 401 - 416Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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