The Bloomsbury Photographs

“The Bloomsbury Photographs [is] a curiously intimate experience. These may not be our relatives, but by the time we close this evocative book we feel a fleeting sense of loss.”—Vanessa Curtis, Times Literary Supplement“The pictures are touching and peculiar and chronicle a gradual loosening of collars.”—Christian House, Sotheby’s“It is a fresh portrayal and affords a delightful tangibility to familiar names and fabled history.”—Fiona McKenzie Johnston, House & Garden, “Best Coffee Table Books 2024”“Full of surprises. A photo of Virginia Woolf louchely dragging on a cigarette will remain indelibly printed on my mind.”—Angela Wintle, Sussex Life

Maggie Humm is vice-chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and emeritus professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. Her work on Bloomsbury includes Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts and her novel Talland House.