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After 37 years of marriage to Sir Michael Redgrave and tumultuous years as the mother of Lynn and Vanessa, Rachel Kempson, 62, has learned to deal with difficult situations. And as one of the stars of John Osborne's latest play, A Sense of Detachment, which invites audience participation, she was not about to let the audience get the better of her. When she was treated to what she called "barracking" by "two gaily dressed chaps," Rachel jumped from the stage, pulled the hair of one man, slapped the other and demanded they leave the theater before she continued...
...that Lytton Strachey, whose 'buggery' as Bell puts it, was well-known, proposed to Virginia in 1909. Though Virginia greatly longed for marriage, she gently cased Strachey out of his offer. From the Bloomsbury salad days also dated Virginia's flirtation with Clive Bell, the husband of her sister Vanessa. Rivalry was always latent between the sisters, and Vanessa's marital happiness was in some sense unbearable to Virginia. Reacting with typically confused feelings of delight and jealousy. Virginia deepened the sisterly tension by her flirtation, which was instrumental in the slow declension of the Bell marriage. It seems incredible...
Despair was not the exclusive product of domestic or personal stress. In Virginia's creative method were visible the pleasures and pains of creative activity almost as no other artist has demonstrated them. Her remorse was usually given articular expression, as in this 1911 letter to Vanessa...
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S contemporary high reputation as a paradigm of feminine sensibility is often puzzling. She does not emerge from Bell's chronicle as a generous, forgiving, or warm human being, though endlessly fascinating. It is her sister Vanessa who appeals to the reader for the attractive qualities Virginia lacked. Virginia's history dramatized the miseries of a sick person, for, she was, on occasion, as mad as the March Hare. She fought a painful battle against the possibility that the next attack of insanity would paralyze her permanently. Clearly, Virginia Woolf in Bell's biography is quite often piteous...
...fever steadily gained momentum. Warner Bros, was planning its new version of the Garbo classic about Sweden's 17th century Queen Christina, who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism and abdicated to spend the rest of her life in Rome. The studio had been thinking of Vanessa Redgrave for the title role, with its demands for classical style and impassioned nobility. But no-who better than Liv Ullmann...