[Vwoolf] FW: MESSAGE FROM THE VWSGB
annemarie bantzinger
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Wed Mar 11 05:25:04 EDT 2015
> From: stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:29:52 +0000
> Subject: MESSAGE FROM THE VWSGB
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> The Bloomsbury Set: Book Club with Priya Parmar and Amanda Coe
>
> Interview by Frances Spalding
>
> Tuesday 24th March 2015
>
> Frances Spalding will be in conversation with Priya Parmar, author of a
> dazzling new portrait of Vanessa Bell and her sister Virginia Woolf,
> Vanessa and Her Sister, and Amanda Coe, the BAFTA Award-winning writer of
> Life in Squares, the BBC dramatization of the lives and loves of the
> revolutionary Bloomsbury Group, starring James Norton.
>
> Vanessa and Her Sister is about the relationship between Vanessa Bell and
> Virginia Woolf, a story of devastating betrayal, art and love. Set during
> the time when the Bloomsbury Set were young and largely unknown, Vanessa
> and Her Sister is a novel woven together by journal entries and letters
> that seem entirely real but are actually the fictional work of astonishing
> new talent, Priya Parmar.
>
> Woolf expert Frances Spalding interviews Priya Parmar and Amanda Coe about
> how they plumbed the depths of this famous group of friends to depict a
> riotous journey on screen and on the page. Both are tales of
> self-destruction, travels around Europe and life at the centre of this
> charmed circle of friends who ‘lived in squares, painted in circles and
> loved in triangles’. Join us for this very special (and truly Bloomsbury)
> Bloomsbury Book Club.
>
> ‘It is billed as fiction, but one of the many joys of Priyar Parmar’s
> Vanessa and Her Sister is that this brilliant epistolary novel reads as if
> this is a genuine and revelatory new take on Bloomsbury. The voice of
> Vanessa Bell rings true’
> Ion Trewin
>
> ‘Priya Parmar is a powerful new voice in historical fiction. This novel
> explores the anguished relationship between the Stephen sisters and
> provides a new view of the artistic, sensual Bloomsbury world, placing
> Vanessa Bell at the heart of the story’
> Philippa Gregory
>
> ‘Rarely do you encounter a woman who commands as much admiration as does
> the painter Vanessa Bell in Priya Parmar’s multilayered, subtly shaded
> novel, Vanessa and Her Sister … Parmar’s fabricated journal is an uncanny
> success. Its entries, plausible and graceful, are imbued with the same
> voice that can be found in letters by or about Vanessa … Parmar gives truth
> and definition to the character of a woman whose nature was as elusive as
> her influence was profound. She has caught the phantom’
> New York Times
>
> Priya Parmar
> A former dramaturg and freelance editor, Priya Parmar was educated at Mount
> Holyoke College, The University of Oxford and The University of Edinburgh.
> She is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. Priya and her
> husband and their French bulldog Herbert divide their time between Hawaii
> and London.
>
> Amanda Coe
> Amanda Coe is the BAFTA award-winning writer of Life in Squares, the
> forthcoming BBC drama about the Bloomsbury Group. She has written
> extensively for television: her credits include creating the award-winning
> Channel 4 series As If and writing the feature Margot for BBC4, about
> Margot Fonteyn. Her adaptation of John Braine's Room At The Top won a BAFTA
> for best TV miniseries in 2013. What They Do in the Dark, her first novel,
> was published in 2011 by Virago and Norton. It was followed by Getting
> Colder in November 2014.
>
> Frances Spalding
> Frances Spalding is a biographer, art historian and critic, with a
> particular interest in 20th century British art. She has written
> extensively on Bloomsbury, having published a biography Of Vanessa Bell as
> well as books on Duncan Grant and Roger Fry. Her introduction to these
> friends, The Bloomsbury Group, is published in the National Portrait
> Gallery’s ‘Insights’ series, and in 2014 she guest curated this gallery’s
> exhibition on Virginia Woolf and wrote the accompanying book, Virginia
> Woolf: Art, Life and Vision.
>
>
> Ticket Details
> Book Club tickets are £20 including a copy of Vanessa and Her Sister posted
> to you in advance, or £10 without the book. Season membership costs £80. To
> join please email bloomsburyinstitute at bloomsbury.com.
> Date: Tuesday 24th March
> Time: Drinks at 6pm and talk at 6:30pm
> Place: Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP
> Tickets: £20 including a hardback book or £10 without the book
> Book online at www.bloomsburyinstitute.com
> About The Bloomsbury Institute
> In December 2011 Bloomsbury Publishing launched a new foray into literary
> events which are aimed directly at the reading public and hosted at its
> Georgian offices in Bedford Square, London, in the heart of Bloomsbury. The
> series of evening events began in January 2012 and are held at Bloomsbury
> Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP.
>
> ‘A magnificent enterprise’ Lord Melvyn Bragg
>
> For further information please contact Claire Daly, on
> Claire.Daly at Bloomsbury.com or 0207 631 5717
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