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“The Bloomsbury Group continued to weave its complicated web of literary, artistic and sexual relations. In 1911, Roger Fry began an affair with Vanessa Bell. Vanessa eventually transferred her affections to one of the Dreadnought hoaxers, Duncan Grant, who was predominantly gay, but who fathered a daughter by her in 1918. The child, Angelica, was raised by Vanessa’s husband, Clive, as his own. In 1916, Vanessa and Grant acquired a Sussex farmhouse, Charleston, which they shared with Grant’s lover, David Garnett, whom Angelica married in 1942. By then, Vanessa’s younger sister, Virginia, was dead. Plagued with bouts of mental illness throughout her life – 1910 was a particularly bad year – she had drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.”

Martin Williams, The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain by Martin Williams
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