My Book Collection on Virginia Woolf and The Bloomsbury Group

Today I'm sharing some of the books in my Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Group collection (I'm sure there will be a part two to this video at some point!). Are you a fan of the Bloomsbury Group too? Have you read any of the books I mention, or do you have any others to recommend?
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BOOKS MENTIONED IN VIDEO:
A Writer's Diary edited by Leonard Woolf: tinyurl.com/yy9q4h4b
The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf: tinyurl.com/y5ua4w4j
Genius and Ink: tinyurl.com/y6psmttt
Travels with Virginia Woolf, edited by Jan Morris (out of print)
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade: tinyurl.com/vdj4gj8
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar: tinyurl.com/y33l68m9
The Bloomsbury Cookbook by Jans Ondaatje Rolls: tinyurl.com/y2eoqmvh
Voyaging Out by Carolyn Trant: tinyurl.com/y5xaaxa5
Virginia Woolf and the Raverats (out of print)
Virginia Woolf at Home by Hilary Macaskill: tinyurl.com/yxey8pow
Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: A Childhood in St Ives by Marion Whybrow: tinyurl.com/yxkh7tla
Virginia Woolf Tate Exhibition Book (out of print)
From Omega to Charleston: tinyurl.com/y2ds8vou
Virginia Woolf's Garden by Caroline Zoob: tinyurl.com/yy78ekz4
Vanessa Bell by Sarah Milroy and Ian A C Dejardin: tinyurl.com/y4hthna4
Bloomsbury Needlepoint (out of print)
Rooms of Their Own by Nino Strachey:tinyurl.com/yxvw7znp
The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf by Frances Spalding: tinyurl.com/y2rlknqh
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden by Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicolson: tinyurl.com/y649pu9l
OTHER MENTIONS:
Charleston Farmhouse: www.charleston.org.uk/
Monk's House: tinyurl.com/jll2kaa
Sissinghurst Castle Garden: tinyurl.com/zcgjwdd
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ABOUT ME: I'm Miranda Mills, a freelance writer and photographer who recently moved from London to Yorkshire.

[@elfieausten3709]

If you love reading about Virginia Woolf, the biography by Hermione Lee is an absolute must-read! It took me quite a while to get through (it's a fat book with very small print), but it was so worth the trouble. It's as if you're moving through Woolf's life with her, on an almost day-to-day basis. It felt like I came very close to her, and the book stayed with me for a long time (and still does). Hermione Lee is every bit as sharp as Woolf herself, and the book is truly brilliant, even if perhaps a little too detailed here and there. Can't recommend it enough!

[@jayneireadcerealboxes2674]

I am slowly working my way through all your videos and was very excited to see this one. I also collect books on the Bloomsbury group so I have a few of these. My grandfather worked for Oxford University Press and also loved the Bloomsbury group so I have all his collection as well. As well as his collection about the Inklings. All of which are so special to me.

[@anitaday599]

Monk's House and Charleston really are magical places to visit. A special memory I hold. Enjoyed seeing your collection of books on the Bloomsbury group Miranda. I have a few of those titles too. Looks like there's more I need xx

[@MirandaMills]

They are magical places indeed! Thank you, Anita - so glad you enjoyed this video 😊📚❤️

[@jennelynnatividad464]

Ooh Miranda, thank you for mentioning Gwen Raverat (grand daughter to Charles Darwin)! I loved her memoir, "Period Piece". I vaguely remember that she was connected to the Bloomsbury Group through Lytton Strachey and Maynard Keynes, but I somehow thought that she was more firmly playing the mother-figure to her Cambridge group of friends surrounding Rupert Brooke.

[@MirandaMills]

It is such a lovely memoir! This collection of letters is so interesting, as I hadn’t known much about her friendship with Virginia Woolf before. Apparently their fathers were friends! 📚

[@jennelynnatividad464]

@@MirandaMills thank you for sharing that interesting fact, and for sharing your amazing collection with us...I must admit, almost every time I happily watch your book vlogs, 1 or 2 book titles inevitably get added onto my Christmas 'want' list! No regrets though (if anything, I have to exercise restraint,) as both you and your Mum, have excellent reading taste, and are such a delight to listen to talk about books (over tea).

[@MirandaMills]

It's lovely to hear you enjoy them! Thank you so much. xxx

[@juliebradby3225]

Oh my goodness Miranda as confirmed ex Londonders well sort of both our families were Londoners and came out to Australia in 1830s we go back every other year just to breathe the air see the things they saw everyday..We have stayed in same hotel every time and have done so for 40 years. Last time we took our whole family 10 of us and we walked their little legs off. This year we couldn't go of course and your wonderful video took me back there to our beloved Camden, so well. thank you .

[@MirandaMills]

Oh I'm so glad I brought back happy memories, and I hope you'll be able to return to London again as soon as possible xxx

[@cappybenton]

Wunderbar - Thank you for taking the time to share these books.

[@teresaparkins1255]

Hi Miranda, this was such an enjoyable look at your wonderful collection of books about the Bloomsbury Group. I do have some of them myself and was so pleased when Caroline Zoob signed my copy of 'Virginia Woolf's Garden' when I was at one of her sewing courses at Cowslip Workshops in Launceston. Looking forward to seeing other books from your collection - you always have some exciting treasures to share with us. Happy reading, Teresa 📚💐

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much Teresa! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. How lovely you got your book by Caroline Zoob signed. That sounds like such a fun course too! I bet she was great xxx

[@teresaparkins1255]

@@MirandaMills yes she was and she told us some extra snippets of her time at Monk's House too xxx

[@lottehoughton648]

Fantastic suggestions and such a lovely video, thank you Miranda

[@kamicastillo1451]

What a wonderful collection!

[@angelam5943]

This was such an interesting video. I am so intrigued by the Bloomsbury Group but have not yet read much on them. I did really love the Priya Parmar book about Virginia and her sister, it was so well written and intimate. I have heard a lot of good things about Square Hunting, so I was planning on purchasing it this month- it is a definite now! Thank you for sharing so many great books about a fascinating bunch of people.

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much! I love Priya’s writing too. Square Haunting is an excellent read - a great one to add to the list 😊💕📚

[@WilliamBaranowski]

Very beautiful and valuable resource. Thank you, so much.

[@justemilyelizabeth]

Love this, and love the Bloomsbury Group! So happy to hear you share your collection. I'm just starting mine, I particularly love Hermione Lee's famous Virginia biography which is more like a beautiful tome as well as the more accessible Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles by Amy Licence (which I believe inspired the TV series Life in Squares). I've also shifted focus to the life of Vita Sackville-West which is very interesting as well, look forward to a part 2 hopefully!

[@MirandaMills]

Your growing collection sounds splendid! There are so many brilliant books on the subject; it’s a lot of fun to build a little collection 📚💕

[@tammiep9628]

Wonderful video! That was very fascinating and interesting. I didn’t know there were so many books out there on Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa bell. I went ahead and purchased the Bloomsbury cookbook and also a childhood in st. Ives, Looking forward to reading them.

[@MirandaMills]

Oh those are two lovely choices! I hope you them 😊💕

[@georgiam4576]

Excellent video, Miranda! I have not read any Woolf but you inspired me to do so.

[@MirandaMills]

Oh I’m so happy to hear that, Georgia! Xxx

[@matthewwatts7333]

Thanks for this Miranda. Very enjoyable and informative. Cheers

[@lisa1922]

What a brilliant video, Miranda - thank you! I am a huge fan of Virginia Woolf, have the same Persephone edition of her diary, and loved seeing all of the other gorgeous and off-the-beaten-path books and exhibition catalogs about Virginia, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and the Bloomsbury group. I too love flicking through exhibition catalogs (my faves are those I purchased while living in the UK) especially now during these lockdown times. Have you tried any recipes from the cookbook? I'm thinking about tracking that one down, maybe along with the Tate St. Ives exhibition catalog. Interesting to hear about the book on the connection between the Woolfs and the Raverats. We read Period Peace at Emily's Walking Book Club and it would be fascinating to learn more about their relationship. Very much looking forward to part II of this sequence! xx

[@MirandaMills]

Thanks so much, Lisa! I have a feeling a tried making a seed cake from the cookbook, but I’m not sure! It’s such a thing of beauty though. Yes, as a huge Gwen Raverat fan I was intrigued by the connection too. I think maybe both Gwen & Virginia’s fathers knew each other, but I’d have to check... xxx

[@BornaDjavdan]

As an economics student I love Keynes' contributions to the field of science. And as an avid reader I would love to read more of the Bloomsbury group's works.

[@SeeHearCandies]

Great recommendations. Some I have and some I will be looking for. The Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell is also a great read. She comes across as a fascinating multidimensional woman who's own life was a work of art.

[@muhlenstedt]

Fascinating !I need do travel to London again in order to see these places, but during the Pandemics going brownsing through these books are a great alternative and also a way to go deeper in the history of the group.I prefer the non fiction works of Virginia Wolf too. However I have just read The commom reader and A room of my own.Her fiction is great but I get a little confuse sometimes, not knowing what is going on, it can be a language problem, since my english is not so good. Thank you for the visual and intelectual enrichment you bring.

[@MirandaMills]

I think her stream of consciousness style can be difficult even for native English speakers! I do love reading her diaries and essays too, and A Room of One’s Own is so brilliant ❤️

[@marionbuck4244]

You‘ve got a fabulous collection of books about Virginia Woolf/Vanessa Bell/The Bloomsbury Group, Miranda. I must admit that, although I‘m familiar with this genre, I haven‘t actually read any of their books or about them. I‘m really interested in the Persephone book you mentioned and last time in London I bought Mrs. Dalloway which I still haven‘t read but now I definitely want to. Looking forward to part 2. xxx

[@MirandaMills]

Thanks so much, Marion! So glad you enjoyed this browse through some of my Bloomsbury books 📚 💕

[@pamelapoet9]

As usual, I don't know which of all these books to desire most. Square Haunting and Vanessa and Her Sister may be inching to the top of my list. To the Lighthouse is my favorite VW novel, perhaps, because it was my introduction to her. I have all of her novels, as wells as her letters and diaries and various collections of essays. I don't have any books about Bloomsbury per se. Your comment about your taxi ride reminded me of one of my favorite reads from this past spring, All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth. (I can't remember, now, if I discovered it on your channel.) She details a particularly interesting interchange with a handyman on her excursion to Talland House. Part memoir and part literary criticism, it interweaves a close reading of To the Lighthouse and Katharine's own story of family and loss. It's beautifully written. Thank you for sharing your wonderful collection.

[@MirandaMills]

I do have All The Lives We Ever Lived; it’s great to hear it’s a favourite of yours! So glad you enjoyed this video, Pamela - thank you! Xxx

[@AtelierAhb]

The Slightly Foxed edition of The Boy from the Hogarth Press I recommend if you don’t already own it. I will eagerly await part 2 as I collect Bloomsbury works as well.

[@MirandaMills]

I do have that one already, but haven’t read it yet. I’m looking forward to it!

[@yumiari2469]

I love it, your collection is impressive 😊

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you so much! 📚💕

[@queerulantin6431]

@@MirandaMills ❤️

[@msmarplemistery2504]

Hi!! Virginia wolf is very special!💓

[@zoemahon4749]

Lovely books. Have you read Alison Light's book about Virginia's relationship with her servants? It really is a good read. I have a book of illustrated letters-bought some time ago-which is by Frances Spalding and titled, Paper Darts. I wonder if it is the same collection as yours, although my edition-if indeed it is the same book-is nowhere near as pretty.

[@daveneedham4443]

Wonderful video on a serious literature subject, and collected books don't have to cost thousands.

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you very much!

[@daveneedham4443]

@@MirandaMills At your suggestion, I bought the Bloomsbury cookbook. It's a wonderful approach to the Bloomsbury group, being a cultural history and cookbook.

[@MirandaMills]

@@daveneedham4443 oh wonderful! So glad you're enjoying it; I do think it's a fabulous read.

[@BeckaBella1]

For someone who is new to Virginia Woolf which book would you recommend starting with??? I have been wanting to explore her work...

[@MirandaMills]

Well, like I said I’m a big fan of her diaries and essays, and I think everyone should read A Room of One’s Own! In terms of her fiction, I’d recommend Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse 📚💕

[@trolareca]

Hello, Miranda! I have only read Flush by Virginia Woolf, but after watching your video I will definitely read her other works. Thank you so much, it was very informative. (margareads on IG)

[@MirandaMills]

Flush is a lovely read! Thank you so much- really glad you enjoyed it ☺️💕

[@Gillian.Ashcroft.66]

What do you think about Katherine Mansfield?

[@MirandaMills]

I love her short stories and journal entries!

[@peterjfullagar2226]

What a great video! Huge fan of Virginia Woolf here. I wonder if you’ve heard about the Virginia Woolf statue project, to get a full size statue of her in Richmond?

[@MirandaMills]

Thank you! And yes I have. I follow their account on Twitter! Would be so lovely to have a statue of her in Richmond 💕

[@peterjfullagar2226]

Miranda Mills oh super! I help run the account, so I’m glad it’s getting some attention!

[@iisajardine9389]

I was going to say, "What a beautiful scarf, it's so apt for your discussion," and then as if you knew what i was thinking, you tell us who designed it ...obviiously 🤦‍♀️🧣📚. First time finding you really enjoyed . Thank you 😊