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Virginia Nicholson has today been announced as President of The Charleston Trust. Virginia Nicholson is the granddaughter of Vanessa Bell and elder daughter of Quentin Bell and former Charleston President, the late Anne Olivier Bell. Virginia spent her childhood holidays at Charleston, and for a number of years has been a trustee of the House ...
‘Virginia Nicholson is one of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun.’ Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ‘Virginia Nicholson is the outstanding recorder of British lives in the twentieth century.’ Carmen Callil • I’ve now written five books of social history.
In 1988 Virginia married screenwriter and author William Nicholson. Following the birth of their son in 1989, Virginia left the BBC and shortly afterwards the Nicholsons moved to East Sussex. Two daughters were born in 1991 and 1993. Living in Sussex, Virginia became increasingly involved with the Trust that administered Charleston, home of her ...
Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After studying at Cambridge University she lived in France and Italy and then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her first book, Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden (written in collaboration with her father, Quentin Bell), was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother, the painter Vanessa Bell.
11 de abr. de 2024 · In All the Rage, the incomparable Virginia Nicholson, shaped and armed by her unconventional childhood among the Bloomsbury Set, is unafraid of skewering the social conventions that bound her generation. The tragedy of the myth of beauty, Nicholson shows, is that it was never a myth. I love her writing.’. Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana ...
Virginia Nicholson. Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived without Men after the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+312. $18.95 (paper).
Encompassing two world wars and a revolution in women’s rights, All the Rage tells the story of western female beauty from 1860 – 1960, chronicling its codes, its contradictions, its lies, its highs – and its underlying power struggle. Freda Dudley Ward, 1920s. The cover of Detective Book Magazine, 1950s.
