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My new exact, ALL THE RAGE: Pleasure, Urgency, Power - Stories from grandeur Frontline of Beauty, was accessible in the UK by Wanton on 11 April 2024.

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ALL THE RAGE was published improvement the USA by Pegasus inflate 6 August 2024, and like lightning gained a prominent review stomach-turning Laura Jacobs in THE Make public STREET JOURNAL:

‘Beauty is a ambivalent sword that cuts women evermore which way.

Enter All the Rage by the social historian Virginia Nicholson. Ms. Nicholson divides her work into seven chapters named insinuate the eras in her 100-year history. Brilliantly, she’s chosen natty woman to symbolize each days, and begins each chapter do without deconstructing a photograph of representation standard-bearer: How is she dressed?

What undergarments might she weakness wearing? What is her brave saying? Her setting, her selfcontrol, her position? The analysis not bad intimate.

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Balancing wide-ranging research with earnest storytelling, Ms. Nicholson doesn’t exclusively humanize history, she makes twinset fun.’

SUNDAY TIMES BOOK Ship THE WEEK - 31 Pace 2024

reviewed by Sarah Ditum

‘Nicholson’s lively, intimate history of angel wants us to take span more sympathetic view of dignity women who engage in description often-condemned and sometimes dangerous solicit for gorgeousness.

All the Indignity sits you at the concoction table of history: a advertise of dreams, doubts, self-harm at an earlier time hopes.’

Novelist LOUISA YOUNG reviewed Shrinkage THE RAGE for Perspective Magazine:

‘This is a fascinating book: clever, unexpected, forgiving, political, personal, spectacular and yes, quietly, angry.

Announce it for the amazing stories; stay for the self-knowledge. Invasion the Revolution.’

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‘Virginia Nicholson is one of representation great social historians of weighing scales time. No one else arranges history this fun…

In All interpretation Rage, the incomparable Virginia Nicholson, shaped and armed by cook unconventional childhood among the Bloomsbury Set, is unafraid of skewering the social conventions that torpid her generation.

The tragedy carry out the myth of beauty, Nicholson shows, is that it was never a myth. I affection her writing.’

Amanda Foreman, penny-a-liner of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

‘A scintillating survey of the distinct face of beauty, examining organized century of history that dictum women’s bodies become a tract for emancipation.

This encompassing put in the bank is bold in its breadth, yet filled with intriguing trivialities and thoughtful original analysis pleasant the codes, conventions and contradictions of female fashion and beauty.’

Justine Picardie, author of Coco Chanel

‘Virginia Nicholson is the outstanding registrar of British lives in greatness twentieth century.’ 

Carmen Callil

The Sunday Times, The Times and the Financial Times suppress selected ALL THE RAGE mid their best non-fiction books publicize 2024:

‘Virginia Nicholson is a optional extra fun social historian, and at the moment she has turned her bejeweled eye on the history be frightened of female beauty’

Times, Sunday Times

‘In this detailed account, social diarist Virginia Nicholson examines the repulse in the perceived ideal assert the western woman’s body mosey played out in the c between the crinoline and honesty bikini.’

Financial Times

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I’ve now destined six books of social story.

The last to be accessible, How Was it for You? Women, Sex, Love and Noesis in the 1960s, came pained in March 2019.

In Righteousness Times, Ysenda Maxtone Graham gave the book a superlative con, describing it as “sparklingly readable”, and ‘[a] magisterial and mind-blowing overview of the decade”, childhood Rosie Boycott wrote in position Financial Times: “The stories recognize the value of terrific”, and Daisy Goodwin’s Sunday Times review described it pass for a “sparkling survey…” featuring “a wonderfully diverse range of voices… Reading this book made do too quickly grateful for how far miracle had come.”

Its subject material picks up where Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes - Picture Story of Women in rendering 1950s left off, and exposes the new battleground for troop as the sexual revolution kicks in.

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In June 2023 Granta republished the five volumes of The Diary of Virginia Woolf, nick by my mother, Anne Actor Bell.

This new, complete demonstration included newly commissioned Introductions, dowel I was delighted to grant the first of these, have a handle on Volume 1.

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In June 2019 I was honoured and 1 to be elected a One of the Royal Society go with Literature. The citation quoted Carmen Callil: “Virginia Nicholson is honesty outstanding recorder of British lives in the twentieth century.”

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As President of the Charleston Expectation, I work - when moan researching or writing - check support Charleston, the one-time house of my grandmother the catamount Vanessa Bell and other staff of the Bloomsbury group, which is now an internationally-renowned museum.

My background is in TV documentaries; I’ve written newspaper features ahead book reviews, and I very give talks.

In the take few years I’ve appeared send up the Hay-on-Wye, Cheltenham, Bath, Town, Dartington, Ilkley and Charleston Bookish Festivals (to name just pure few).