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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.
11. Apr. 2024 · Virginia Nicholson is a social historian and the author of six books, including All the Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power - Stories from the Frontline of Beauty. She is also the President of the Charleston Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Biography. I was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1955. My father was the art historian and writer Quentin Bell, acclaimed for his biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf. My mother Anne Olivier Bell – the best of role models - edited the five volumes of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries. When I was four I was devouring fairy tales faster than they could ...
Encompassing two world wars and a revolution in women’s rights, All the Rage tells the story of western female beauty from 1860 – 1960, chronicling its codes, its contradictions, its lies, its highs – and its underlying power struggle. READ MORE.
4. März 2015 · Virginia Nicholson | Books | The Guardian. Virginia Nicholson's first book, Charleston - A Bloomsbury House and Garden (written in collaboration with her father, Quentin Bell), was an...
Virginia Nicholson. About the Author. Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex, and studied at Cambridge University. She lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for the BBC.
Virginia Nicholson is a social historian and a Fellow of the RSL. She has written books on women's history, such as Among the Bohemians, Singled Out and Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes.
