Charles Tansley used to say that, she remembered, women can’t paint, can’t write. —VIRGINIA WOOLF, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Indeed, I am amazed, a little alarmed (for as you have the children, the fame by rights belongs to me) by your combination of pure artistic vision and brilliance of imagination. —VIRGINIA WOOLF IN A LETTER TO HER SISTER IN SOME EARLYISH MONTH OF 1912, two sisters—Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) and Virginia Stephen (soon to be Woolf)—worked together quietly indoors.
