3-057-381 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Hyde Park Gate News, family magazine produced by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, 1891-1892. Page from Vol I of a family magazine produced by Vanessa Stephen (afterwards Bell, painter) and her sister Adeline Virginia Stephen (afterwards Woolf, novelist)...The contents include family news and gossip, riddles, poems, accounts of visits to concerts and plays, fictional letters and diary extracts, drawings (mostly by Vanessa) and stories in serial form. Most of the contributions are in the hand of Vanessa, with some - mostly later - passages in the hand of Virginia; the hand does not, however, necessarily identify the author of any particular piece, since the children took turns in copying them out. 'Christmas number. We here give a picture of the celebrated author Mr. Leslie Stephen [their father, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography]. The drawing-room of No 22 H.P.G. was crowded last Sunday with Christmas presents which the benignant Mrs. Leslie Stephen was about to bestow on her friends. Mrs Jackson has no doubt our readers know brought her canary with her to H.P.G. It far excels in singing Miss Vanessa Stephens bird. N.B. Miss Vanessa put in her paper in whiteness [?] of plumage instead of singing'.