버지니아 울프 언니 Vanessa Bell

Grace Higgens was the Bloombury Group's housekeeper for 50 years.  Now Grace Higgen's diaries reveal an intriguing picture of sexual mores above and below stairs.  By Anthony Gardner.

 

To academics, their main interest will be as a record of the comings and goings at Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse that acted as a country retreat for the Bloomsbury Group, where Grace was installed as housekeeper.  But they also shed fascinating light on life below stairs in the aftermath of World War I, and show that the sexual promiscuity for which the group was notorious had echoes among its domestic staff.

 

Vanessa Bell’s strange marital arrangements are so central to Grace’s story that they are worth setting our once more.  The elder sister of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa was married in 1907 to the art critic Clive Bell, by whom she had two sons, Julian and Quentin.  The couple remained together for only a few years, chiefly because of Clive’s infidelities, which included a flirtation with his sister-in-law, Virginia.  Vanessa herself had a passionate affair with the art critic Roger Fry, and subsequently set up house with the painter Duncan Grant, even though he was primarily homosexual.

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Vanessa Bell's 1943 painting of Grace Higgens, the housekeeper at the Bloomsbury Group's Sussex retreat, Charleston.

 

<Vanessa Bell, The Kitchen, c.1943, oil canvas>

그림 사진 스캔이 얼기설기한 종이뒷면배경이 보이게 됨으로써 제대로 그림이 스캔 되지 못한 상태임을 참조 바람.

 

 

 

<The studio at Charleston; Scottish painter Duncan Grant; and Vanessa Bell, whose time at Charleston began as part of a menage a trois with Grant, with whom she had a daughter, and author and publisher David Garnett.> <스튜디오 사진이 선명하게 스캔이 되지 못한 상태임>.