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3 unusual facts about Angelica Garnett


Angelica Bell

Angelica Garnett (née Bell) (1918–2012), English writer and painter associated with the Bloomsbury Group

Constance Hunting

She was also the founder and editor of Puckerbrush Press, which, over the twenty-eight years of its existence, published a great variety of work by many writers, domestic and international, including May Sarton, James Kelman, Angelica Garnett, and other figures from the Bloomsbury Group.

Julian Bell

The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother, and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett was his half-sister.


David Garnett

He was present at the birth of Grant's daughter, Angelica (by Vanessa Bell, and accepted by her husband Clive Bell), on 25 December 1918, and wrote to a friend shortly afterwards, "I think of marrying it. When she is 20, I shall be 46 – will it be scandalous?".


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