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...isolated cottage, Monk's House, near the village of Rodmell, Sussex. There was plenty of action, with airplanes frequently roaring overhead, dropping incendiaries. Virginia helped to give first aid. When a bomb demolished her London home, destroying valuable murals by Duncan Grant and her sister, Vanessa Bell (wife of Art Critic Clive Bell), she observed: "Every beautiful thing will soon be destroyed...
...comprising most of the book, is an intense, imaginative version of Swift's tormented love life with Stella and Vanessa...
...killed her lover in the World War. During Swift's madness the two lovers appear as his servants. Few readers will be able to follow Author Sitwell's symbolical connection between the modern world and the egomania that drove Swift to destroy the lives of Stella and Vanessa because he would neither live with them nor leave them alone...
When Adeline Virginia (she dropped the Adeline early) was 13, her beautiful mother died. After her father's death, nine years later, she kept house in London with her sister Vanessa and two brothers...
...Wasn't that well done?" was the comment of the Lady-In-Front as the last flicker of "Vanessa" vanished from view and a satisfied audience dragged out of the University. Robert Montgomery and Helen Hayes are teamed together again and supported by a notable cast including Otto Krenger and Lewis Stone who do their usual fine work. Taken from Hugh Walpole's best seller, the story is extremely well handled but like many another fine book is a little cramped. So few scenes for such a long story involves much being taken for granted...