Virginia Nicholson

Virginia Nicholson 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

Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Gardens. Frances Lincoln, London, 1997. Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939. Viking, London, 2002. Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War. Viking, 2007. Millions Like Us: Women's Lives During the Second World War. Viking, 2011. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s. Viking, 2015.