This is a biography of British painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group, Duncan Grant. Spalding sheds light on Grant's love affairs and relationships, and reassesses Grant's painting, setting it in the context of his fluctuating reputation.
This book explores Vernon Lee's ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf.
Ulysses Grant was his country's greatest general since George Washington. Like Washington, Grant's battlefield performance was the only factor standing between the United States continuing as one, indivisible nation. Grant was the keystone of Union victory, a man whose removal would have resulted in ...
