Virginia Nicholson (née Bell) (born 1955) is an English non-fiction author known for her works of women's history in the first half of the twentieth century. Nicholson was born in Newcastle and grew up in
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by popula ...
before becoming a television researcher.
Family
Her father was the writer and
art historian Quentin Bell
Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (19 August 1910 – 16 December 1996) was an English art historian and author.
Early life
Bell was born in London, the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), and the nephew of Virginia Woolf (née Ste ...
, nephew of
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Woolf was born i ...
; her mother,
Anne Olivier Bell
Anne Olivier Bell (née Popham; 22 June 1916 – 18 July 2018) was an English art scholar. She was part of the Bloomsbury Group and best known for editing the diaries of Virginia Woolf. As a member of the ''Monuments Men'', she was responsible ...
, edited Virginia Woolf's diaries.
She married writer
William Nicholson in 1988.
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Selected publications
* ''Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Gardens''. Frances Lincoln, London, 1997. (With Quentin Bell)
* ''Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939''. Viking, London, 2002.
References
External links
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Living people
English non-fiction writers
English women non-fiction writers
Women's historians
1955 births
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Writers from Newcastle upon Tyne
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