Vanessa and Her Sister

Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel Hardcover – Deckle Edge, December 30, 2014

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Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel – Deckle Edge, December 30, 2014
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• Hardcover: 368 pages


• Publisher: Ballantine Books (December 30, 2014)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 080417637X


• ISBN-13: 978-0804176378


• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches


• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  
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Vanessa and Her Sister is an enthralling page turner of a book. Beginning shortly after the four Stephen siblings; Thoday, Vanessa, Virginia, and Adrian have set up housekeeping in unfashionable bohemian Bloomsbury, away from the Victorian strictures of their late parents’ home in Kensington. There, the stage is set for the domestic, social, and artistic dramas, triumphs, and disappointments of their ever widening circle of friends. Among the literary glitterati of Edwardian England before WWI who frequented the glamorous Stephen house were the likes of Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forester, and Rupert Brooke. The Stephens were well connected, talented, and good company, and those were heady times. The loosening of Victorian staidness is reflected in the small battles within the Stephen’s household, when a relative is horrified that Vanessa and Virginia were the only ladies at a party given at their house, and worse yet, dinner was not even served.

This is an epistolary novel; Vanessa’s diary entries are punctuated with postcards, letters, and facsimiles of railway and ship tickets. The result is that the 21st century reader, accustomed to instantaneous electronic communication is forced to slow down and experience the Stephen’s world the way they lived it; a fever could bring death within hours, emergency help was summoned with a note, and conversations were rich and nuanced.

At the beginning of the book, Vanessa is accustomed to managing the family. References are made to Virginia’s volatile and fragile mental health that tyrannizes all around her. It was Virginia who decided that she’d be the writer and Vanessa the artist.

I’ve always thought it must be tough to be the accomplished but always less-well known sibling of a famous brother or sister. In "Vanessa and Her Sister," we are treated to Vanesa Bell’s, the wife of Clive and sister of Virginia (Stephen) Woolf, account of being a member of a well-educated and accomplished family and circle of would-be famous intellectuals. The circle, known as the Bloomsbury group, includes journalist Lytton Strachey, novelist E.M. Forster, economist John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf (then a cadet in the Colonial Civil Service, artist Margery "Snow" Snowden, and the two Stephen brothers: Thoby and Adrian, both Cambridge undergraduates. When the book opens, the four siblings are living together and hosting meetings of the circle. As the book progresses, we get to learn more about each one’s work and personal lives, and how their paths intersect.

There are three main threads, among all the diary entries and correspondence by the various characters.

First, of course, is Vanessa’s thoughts, written in diary format. We learn about her feelings of inadequacy next to her brilliant sister (which seems to have been first fostered by their parents). Eventually, Vanessa starts a particular meeting day group of her own which will focus on art, although this act of initiative is not often repeated in the novel. We also experience the stress and anxiety Vanessa feels over having to deal with Virginia’s neediness, insecurity and her "mad" periods, which are unsurprisingly poorly understood by the doctors she consults. Her sister’s problems will further complicate Vanessa’s developing relationship with Clive, in ways that I won’t spoil here.

Second, there are Lytton Strachey’s letters to his friend Leonard.

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