Books by Angelica Garnett

Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself the daughter of Vanessa's husband Clive. Her childhood homes, Charleston in Sussex and Gordon Square in London, were both centres of Bloomsbury activity, and she grew up surrounded by the most talked-about writers and artists of the day - the Woolfs, Roger Fry, the Stracheys, Maynard Keynes and many others. In 1942 she married David Garnett by whom she had four daughters; they later separated and in 1983 she moved to France and spent the latter part of her life painting. In 1984 she published Deceived with Kindness, an extraordinarily frank memoir about her childhood, which won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. Angelica Garnett died in 2012, aged 93.