North Richland Hills Public Library -- Virginia Woolf And The Women Who Shaped Her World, Gillian Gill, May — 2, 2025

 Virginia Woolf And The Women Who Shaped Her World, Gillian Gill, c. 2019; 823.912 GILL.

Part I

The Pattle L'Egacy

Virginia Woolf's Indian Ancestreses -- Thérèse de l'Egang and Adeline Pattle
Pattledom
High Society

Part II

Virginia Woolf and the Thackerays -- A Legacy of Literature, Money, and Madness
Finders Keepers
William and Isabelal
Anny and Minny
Virginia Woolf's Mad, Bad Sister

Part III

The Angels of Hyde Park Gate
Julia Prinsep Jackson 

Duckworth Stephen
Stella Duckworth Hills
A Close Conspiracy

Part IV

Old Bloomsbury

From Cambridge to Bloomsburty
The Landmark Year
The Great Betrayal

Part V

A Tale of Two Sisters

Vanessa's Way, Part I
Virginia's Way, Part I
Vanessa's Way, Part II
Virginia's Way, Part II

Epilogue: The Bell Children and Their Aunt

The Brady Bunch: two sets of three children from two different fathers; same mother.

Mother: Julia Jackson, 1846 - 1895

Father: Herbert Duckworth -- three children, each a year part, m-f-m
George Duckworth, 1868 - 1934
Stella Duckworth, 1869 - 1897
Gerald Duckworth, 1870 - 1937
Father: Leslie Stephen
Vanessa Stephen, 1879 - 1961, m. Clive Bell, three children
Julian Thoby Stephen, 1880 - 1906
Adeline Virginia Stephen, 1882 - 1941
Adrian Stephen, 1883 -1948, m. Karen Costelloe, two daughters

Mother Julia Jackson
twenty years before US Civil War
first child, age 22
children gap between families, nine years, wow
fourth child, age 33
last child, age 37

Virginia: age 16 (1898)
1898: Clive Bell (b. 1881) was 17 years old

Clive Bell married Vanessa in 1907; he: 26; she: 28 

Irony: Clive Bell and Vanessa met in Paris in 1904
Clive Bell started showing up at Thoby's Thursday "at homes"
Clive Bell: Thoby Stephen's closest friend
somewhat of a specialist in French art
Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec
Toulouse-Laurec's first lover, Anne Raven-Hill, introduced Thoby to Degas and T-L, among others
how did Anne Raven-Hill and Clive Bell first run into each other
doesn't matter; probably bohemia painters, Left Bank, Paris

Vanessa and Clive: mutual friend, Lytton Strachey
Thoby was aware of Clive Bell's womanizing and told his close friend Clive Bell that Vanessa was off-limits

Page 233.

Vanessa: habit of "cold feet" when it comes to marriage; just like her older stepsister, Stella Duckworth. Both turned down marriage proposals in succession

Author suggests something else going on.

I've run out of time. This is a very, very good book.