Virginia Nicholson
{{Short description|English author and member of Bloomsbury Group}}
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Virginia Nicholson (née Bell; born 1955) is an English non-fiction author known for her works of women's history in the first half of the twentieth century. Nicholson was born in Newcastle and grew up in Leeds before becoming a television researcher.
Family
Her father was the writer and art historian Quentin Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf;{{Cite web|url=http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/biography|title = Biography}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.townandcountymag.co.uk/the-way-we-really-were|title=The way we really were|date=20 May 2019}} her mother, Anne Olivier Bell, edited Virginia Woolf's diaries.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/11432499/Virginia-Nicholson-her-great-aunt-Virginia-Woolf-Im-not-mad-or-fragile-or-childless-or-all-of-the-things-she-was.html|title=Virginia Nicholson on her great-aunt Virginia Woolf: 'I'm not mad, or fragile or childless, or all of the things she was'|last=Everett|first=Lucinda|date=27 February 2015|website=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2 November 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/biography/|title=Biography|website=Virginia Nicholson|access-date=2 November 2017}} She married writer William Nicholson in 1988.
Selected publications
- Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Gardens. Frances Lincoln, London, 1997. (With Quentin Bell) {{ISBN|0711211337}}
- Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939. Viking, London, 2002.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/17/classics.biography|title=Observer review: Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson|first=David|last=Jays|date=17 November 2002|access-date=2 November 2017|website=Theguardian.com}} {{ISBN|0670889660}}
- Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War. Viking, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0670915644}}
- Millions Like Us: Women's Lives During the Second World War. Viking, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0670917785}}
- Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s. Viking, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0670921317}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.virginianicholson.co.uk/|title=Home|website=Virginia Nicholson|access-date=2 November 2017}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/21/virginia-nicholson-mother-war-and-peace|title=We need to talk about Graham|first=Virginia|last=Nicholson|date=20 May 2011|access-date=2 November 2017|website=Theguardian.com}}
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Category:English non-fiction writers
Category:English women non-fiction writers
Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Category:Writers from Newcastle upon Tyne
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