Brought up in Bloomsbury

First edition. 179pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Pale blue cloth boards with titles in a darker shade of blue stamped to spine. Grey-blue top-stain; somewhat faded. Foxing to fore-edge of text block and first and last few leaves. Minor scuffing to ffe, as if a sticker was removed. Unclipped jacket chipped to edges with some loss to head of spine area and corner folds; neat tape reinforcement to tail of spine. *** Polly Hobson [Julia (Jill) Evans, née Rendel] (1913–2000), author vaguely connected to the Bloomsbury Group (via her cousin Lytton Strachey). Brought up in Bloomsbury is her first novel and tells the semi-autobiographical story of a young teenager who from a sheltered life in a country vicarage suddenly finds herself at the heart of Bohemian Bloomsbury when she moves in with her artistic uncle…