A multiplicity of love was helped along by husband Clive Bell, who insisted on an open marriage. To his credit, this openness was not for himself alone and extended to his wife, who soon took up with England’s preeminent art historian, Roger Fry. Unlike Clive, her lover was devastated when after a few years she fell for painter Duncan Grant, then lived with him in marriagelike coupledom for some forty years. Together they had a child, Angelica, who was raised as a Bell. Vanessa and Clive never divorced and remained congenial friends. Meanwhile, Vanessa quietly shared her love of Grant with a
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