Elders and Betters

In these pen portraits of his 'elders and betters' Quentin Bell shows us his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell, his uncle and aunt, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and others in their circleDuncan Grant and David Garnett among them. In writing of them he also tells the story of his own work: his employment as agricultural labourer, his career as artist - in two and three dimensions - and teacher of art, critic, writer, and as reluctant spokesman for Bloomsbury, which however he defends from ignorant or prejudiced assaults with conviction and humour.

ISBN	0719554349	DEWEY edition	DC12A
ISBN13	9780719554346 (What's this?)	Pages	256
Publisher	John Murray General Publishing Division	Weight (grammes)	546
Imprint	John Murray Publishers Ltd	Published in	London
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	240
Publication date	14 Sep 1995	Width (mm)	161
DEWEY	941.0820922	Academic level	General

	Illustrations
1	Pig in the Middle	1
2	Clive Bell	22
3	Vanessa Bell	43
4	Duncan Grant	59
5	David Garnett	71
6	Maynard Keynes	85
7	Roger Fry	106
8	Leonard Woolf	116
9	The MacCarthys	129
10	Meetings with Morgan	140
11	The Stracheys	147
12	Ottoline Morrell	161
13	Ethel Smyth	169
14	Claude Rogers and Lawrence Gowing	176
15	Robert Medley and Mary Butts	193
16	Anthony Blunt	203
App. I	A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas	212
App. II	Maynard Keynes and His Early Beliefs	221
	Index	227

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