Virginia Nicholson

Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virginia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures...

Bohemia is a hard country to place, yet it was utterly familiar to the people who inhabited it from the turn of the century until the outbreak of World War II, a place where to be different was to be accepted. Here artists felt at home and among friends - some rich, some poor, talented and untalented, who believed in...