Elders And Betters

The artist, critic and writer, Quentin Bell, provides a collection of pen portraits.

The subjects include his parents (Vanessa and Clive Bell), his aunt and uncle (Virginia and Leonard Woolf), Roger Fry, E.M.

Forster, Ottoline Morrell, Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey.

In writing about these figures, Bell also tells the story of his own work: his employment as agricultural labourer, his career as an artist (in two and three dimensions) and teacher of art, critic, writer, and reluctant spokesman of Bloomsbury.