Virginia Nicholson

Virginia Nicholson
Born
Virginia Bell

1955 (age 70–71)
Newcastle, England
OccupationNon-fiction author
Spouse
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(m. 1988)​
Parent(s)Quentin Bell and Anne Olivier Bell
RelativesVirginia Woolf (great-aunt)
Websitevirginianicholson.co.uk

Virginia Nicholson (née Bell; born 1955) is an English non-fiction author known for her works of women's history in the first half of the twentieth century. Nicholson was born in Newcastle and grew up in Leeds, before becoming a television researcher. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019.

Family

Her father was the writer and art historian Quentin Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf; her mother, Anne Olivier Bell, edited Virginia Woolf's diaries. She married writer William Nicholson in 1988.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Nicholson, Virginia". 1 September 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "Biography". virginianicholson.co.uk.
  3. ↑ "The way we really were". 20 May 2019.
  4. 1 2 Everett, Lucinda (27 February 2015). "Virginia Nicholson on her great-aunt Virginia Woolf: 'I'm not mad, or fragile or childless, or all of the things she was'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Biography". Virginia Nicholson. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Jays, David (17 November 2002). "Observer review: Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 November 2017.