"It will be an odd life”, mused Vanessa Bell, “but...it ought to be a good one for painting." These words were written as Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf and doyenne of the Bloomsbury group, was preparing to move to CharlestonFarmhouse, a stunning, isolated house in East Sussex that would become the country retreat for the extraordinary collection of artists, writers, thinkers and radicals that made up that most il...
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