Flush: A Biography

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The Vanessa Bell illustration featured on the cover and on the inside covers, is reproduced with permission from the copyright holder. This item has not been made available with a CC BY-NC-ND licence and cannot be downloaded and shared.

Excepting the illustration which remains in copyright, the jacket and publication are over 70 years old and now out of copyright in the UK. Thanks are given to the Society of Illustrators literary estate holders of Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

 

This book is held at The University of Reading Special Collections as part of the Finzi, Gerald & Joy – Papers and Library

Source: University of Reading Special Collections: Finzi, Gerald & Joy Library

Image Rights Holder: © Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.

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Inside cover of uniform edition of 'Flush a Biography' featuring a Vanessa Bell line drawing containing a scene showing people and a dog
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Vanessa Bell, dust jacket of "Flush: A Biography" including an illustrated frontispiece showing illustrations on the inside and back cover

Rights Statement:

The Vanessa Bell illustration featured on the cover and on the inside covers, is reproduced with permission from the copyright holder. This item has not been made available with a CC BY-NC-ND licence and cannot be downloaded and shared.

Excepting the illustration which remains in copyright, the jacket and publication are over 70 years old and now out of copyright in the UK. Thanks are given to the Society of Illustrators literary estate holders of Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

 

This book is held at The University of Reading Special Collections as part of the Finzi, Gerald & Joy – Papers and Library

Source: University of Reading Special Collections: Finzi, Gerald & Joy Library

Image Rights Holder: © Estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.

https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/finzi-book-roo...
Image of blue but faded uniform edition of 'Flush a Biography', featuring Vanessa Bell's Woolf's head logo
Inside cover of uniform edition of 'Flush a Biography' featuring a Vanessa Bell line drawing containing a scene showing people and a dog
Inside cover of uniform edition of 'Flush a Biography' featuring a Vanessa Bell line drawing containing a scene showing people and a dog

Flush: A Biography

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Publication Date:

1933

Genre:

Biography

Language:

English

Illustrator:

Vanessa Bell

Publisher:

The Hogarth Press

Dust Jacket Designer:

Vanessa Bell

Other Edition(s):

Flush, A Biography, [first British edition]

 

Woolf's popular, dog's-eye view of a tale. The book drew on contemporary fascination with the lives of the poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Written, Woolf wrote, 'by way of a lark when I had finished The Waves: but its too long-got out of hand' (L 5). 

 

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