{"product_id":"the-angel-of-charleston-grace-higgens-housekeeper-to-the-bloomsbury-group-9780712358675","title":"The Angel of Charleston: Grace Higgens  Housekeeper to the Bloomsbury Group","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrace Higgens (190383) arrived at the Gordon Square house of Vanessa Bella member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolfin June 1920. Higgens remained with the family for fifty years as housemaid  nurse  cook  and  finally  housekeeper at Charleston  the country house in Sussex where the Bell family spent their holidays during the interwar period and later lived permanently until the 1970s.  This book  the first to focus on the life of Higgens  is based on her diaries and correspondence. Dubbed the \"Angel of Charleston by Vanessas son Quentin  Grace was high-spirited with a robust sense of fun; she read all she could and often sat for her painter employers  who much admired her looks. Her numerous diaries recount her years in Gordon Square  Charleston  and the south of France  painting a vividand intimatepicture of life with the Bells and the Bloomsbury Group. With great humor  Higgens describes the various denizens of Charleston  such as Duncan Grant  Roger Fry  E. M. Forster  and  of course  Virginia Woolf. There are moving entries about the death of Vanessa Bell in 1961 as well as Higgenss final years at Charleston looking after the elderly Duncan Grant.  The Angel of Charleston describes a little-known side of the Bloomsbury world and illuminates a lost era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652937900085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0712358676","price":138.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780712358675.jpg?v=1781853697","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-angel-of-charleston-grace-higgens-housekeeper-to-the-bloomsbury-group-9780712358675","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}