Virginia Nicholson
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. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019.[1]
Family
[edit]Her father was the writer and art historian Quentin Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf;[2][3] her mother, Anne Olivier Bell, edited Virginia Woolf's diaries.[4][5] She married writer William Nicholson in 1988.[4]
Selected publications
[edit]- 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.[6] 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
[edit]- ↑ "Nicholson, Virginia". 1 September 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ↑ "Biography".
- ↑ "The way we really were". 20 May 2019.
- 1 2 Everett, Lucinda (27 February 2015). "Virginia Nicholson on her great-aunt Virginia Woolf: 'I'm not mad, or fragile or childless, or all of the things she was'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ↑ "Biography". Virginia Nicholson. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ↑ Jays, David (17 November 2002). "Observer review: Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
External links
[edit]- "Home". Virginia Nicholson. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- Nicholson, Virginia (20 May 2011). "We need to talk about Graham". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
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