Virginia Nicholson&s Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England&s artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century engaged in a grand experiment Subversive eccentric & flamboyant
- the Bohemians ate garlic & didn&t always wash; they painted & danced & didn&t care what people thought They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality & Free Love They were often drunk broke & hungry but they were rebels In this fascinating book Virginia Nicholson examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives& Interesting gorgeous wonderful this book displays the best of bohemia itself
- playful dazzling original& Julie Burchill Spectator& Racy vivacious warm-hearted Offers an illuminating & well-researched portrait of life among the artists a century ago& TLSVirginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne She has worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television & her first book Charleston
- A Bloomsbury House & Garden (written in collaboration with her father Quentin Bell) was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother the painter Vanessa Bell Her second book Among the Bohemians Experiments in Living 1900-1939 was published by Penguin in 2002 She lives in Sussex