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The Hidden Houses of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell is an in depth look at the places that inspired these two famous members of the Bloomsbury Group, from 1882-1908. The book contains many original unpublished archive photographs of Woolf and Bell as they visited houses, mansions, villas, and lodging houses all over England, with their father, assorted pets, servants, and visitors.

My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live in Munich. Food is rationed, though the war ended years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. My parents would not approve, so I hide this from them. I think they are hiding something from me, too. Letters arrive on my birthday, but they are not addressed to me. They are for a girl named Kasia. This is her story.

This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the caregivers of her Victorian childhood who instilled in her a lifelong struggle between creativity and convention: her taciturn sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; independent novelist Vita Sackville-West; and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth.