Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

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Bohemia is a hard country to place, yet it was utterly familiar to the people who inhabited it from the turn of the century until the outbreak of World War II, a place where to be different was to be accepted. Here artists felt at home and among friends - some rich, some poor, talented and untalented, who believed in friendship more than family and who by their very differences proclaimed to be part of a confederacy. Among these self-styled bohemians were Ralph Partridge, Nancy Nicholson, Arthur Ransome, Rupert Brooke, Virginia Woolfe, Duncan Grant, Katherine Mansfield, and Dylan and Caitlin Thomas - and many others in this expanding circle of talented individuals. These people were in the avant-garde not only for their art, but possibly even more significantly, for a new kind of social life which has become so accepted today that we barely notice how utterly we have assimilated it and made it our own.

Virginia Nicholson is the granddaughter of Vanessa Bell. A freelance jouralist and researcher, she is Deputy Chairman of The Charleston Trust. Her first book was Charleston- A Bloomsbury House and Garden. Virginia Nicholson lives in Sussex.