{"product_id":"among-the-bohemians-experiments-in-living-1900-1939-9780060548469","title":"Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey were the bohemians.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Nicholson -- the granddaughter of painter Vanessa Bell and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -- explores the subversive, eccentric, and flamboyant artistic community of the early twentieth century in this \"wonderfully researched and colorful composite portrait of an enigmatic world whose members, because they lived by no rules, are difficult to characterize\" (\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Virginia Nicholson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.28w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060548469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/12\/2005 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholson, Virginia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After studying at Cambridge University she lived in France and Italy and then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC television. Her first book, \u003cem\u003e Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden\u003c\/em\u003e -- written in collaboration with her father, \u003cem\u003e Quentin Bell\u003c\/em\u003e -- was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother, the painter Vanessa Bell -- Virginia Woolf's sister. She is married, has three children and lives in Sussex, England. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43099430715507,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_89d9fda1-3e08-4c93-bc65-b5f4c1f9de87.jpg?v=1748699378","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/among-the-bohemians-experiments-in-living-1900-1939-9780060548469","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}