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A Woman to Know: Vanessa Bell

A Woman to Know: Vanessa Bell

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Julia Carpenter
Jun 19, 2019
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I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as one is forced to think. — Vanessa Bell

(image via National Portrait Gallery)


You may not know that Virginia Woolf had a sister: Vanessa. As the older sibling, Vanessa pioneered the way for Virginia to escape her strait-laced upbringing; one legendary story has her secretly removing the pompou…

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