Virginia Nicholson Explained

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.

Family

Her father was the writer and art historian Quentin Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf;^{[1] [2]} her mother, Anne Olivier Bell, edited Virginia Woolf's diaries.^{[3] [4]} She married writer William Nicholson in 1988.^[3]

Selected publications

• Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Gardens. Frances Lincoln, London, 1997. (With Quentin Bell)
• Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939. Viking, London, 2002.^[5]
• Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War. Viking, 2007.
• Millions Like Us: Women's Lives During the Second World War. Viking, 2011.
• Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s. Viking, 2015.

External links

• Web site: Home. Virginia Nicholson. 2 November 2017.
• Web site: We need to talk about Graham. Virginia. Nicholson. 20 May 2011. 2 November 2017. Theguardian.com.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography.
2. Web site: The way we really were. 20 May 2019.
3. Web site: Virginia Nicholson on her great-aunt Virginia Woolf: 'I'm not mad, or fragile or childless, or all of the things she was'. Everett. Lucinda. 27 February 2015. Telegraph.co.uk. 2 November 2017.
4. Web site: Biography. Virginia Nicholson. 2 November 2017.
5. Web site: Observer review: Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson. David. Jays. 17 November 2002. 2 November 2017. Theguardian.com.