Angelica Garnett
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (nee Bell; * December 25, 1918 Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex; † 4, 2012 in Aix -en- Provence, France) was an English author and artist. The niece of the writer Virginia Woolf came from the circle of the Bloomsbury Group.
Life and work
Angelica Vanessa Garnett was the daughter of the painter Vanessa Bell (née Stephen ), the sister of the writer Virginia Woolf, and Clive Bell. However, their biological father was the homosexual painter Duncan Grant, with which her mother had an affair. However, Clive Bell was sympathetic and allowed willingly, that Angelica was to bear his name and look at him as a father, so she would not disowned by his conservative family. About her true parentage Angelica learned only at the age of seventeen years, even though she lived with Grant and her mother on the Charleston Farmhouse, where she was also raised. As a small child Angelica was sickly and grew up without direct reference person, but enjoyed the undivided admiration of their existing exclusively of adults, " parents' house ": she had with Roger Fry, who was also a lover of her mother, a grandfather's friend and two much older half-brothers: the poet Julian Bell, who died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil war and the later art historian Quentin Bell ( 1910-1996 ).
Angelica attended from 1929 Longford Grove School in Essex, preferably dealt with art, literature and history and made trips to Paris and Rome. Despite objections from the parents she married in 1942 the writer David Garnett, who was previously in turn had a relationship with her father Duncan Grant. The marriage produced four daughters were born: the actress Amaryllis Virginia (1943-1973), the writer Henrietta Catherine Vanessa ( b. 1945 ) and the 1946 -born twins Nerissa Stephen († 2004), a painter, photographer and ceramicist; and daughter Frances, called " Fanny ". The marriage with Garnett finally fell apart and ended in divorce in 1961; In the same year died the mother of Vanessa and Angelica spent a lot of time with her father Duncan in Charleston. When Duncan died in 1978, took over Angelica the Charleston Trust, the family archive managed and made the property accessible to the public as a museum.
Angelica Garnett lived the last 30 years of her life in Forcalquier in the south of France. She died at the age of 93 years.
The main works of Angelica Garnett, the 1984 memoirs Deceived with Kindness ( German title " Friendly illusions " ), which deal with her disoriented, sometimes stressful childhood in an open relationship specific, promiscuous parents house. Your somewhat bitter view of popular artists Bell, Grant and Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, in general, was admitted controversial by the public.
Publications
- Deceived with Kindness; Random House UK, new edition 1995, ISBN 0-7126-6266-9
- Friendly deceptions; German translation of Fischer paperbacks, Frankfurt 1993, ISBN 3-596-11428-4