Rating:
6.8/10 by 15 users
Episode 2
As war descends on Europe, the Bloomsbury friends struggle to build a life outside London. Virginia weds Leonard Woolf and begins a unique, unexpectedly happy marriage, which is in stark contrast to Vanessa and Clive's failing relationship. Vanessa comes to the painful realisation that she is in love with gay Duncan Grant and so begins a life devoted to him, painting and her children.
Writing:
Release Date:
Mon, Jul 27, 2015
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 57
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 57
Eve Best
Older Vanessa Bell
Phoebe Fox
Young Vanessa Bell
Lydia Leonard
Young Virginia Woolf
James Norton
Young Duncan Grant
Ed Birch
Lytton Strachey
Christian Brassington
Cuthbert
Al Weaver
Leonard Woolf
Jack Davenport
David Garnett
James Northcote
Adrian Stephen
Lucy Boynton
Angelica Garnett
Jerome Finch
Saxon Sydney-Turner
Catherine McCormack
Virginia Woolf
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
David Garnett
Rupert Penry-Jones
Duncan Grant
Anton Lesser
Dr. Hyslop
Deborah Findlay
Aunt Jane
Andrew Havill
Older Clive Bell
Guy Henry
Older Leonard
Sam Hoare
Young Clive Bell
Edmund Kingsley
Maynard Keynes
Finn Jones
Julian Bell
Season 1:
Painter Vanessa Stephen and her writer sister Virginia embark on a life of unexpected, post-Victorian freedom in bohemian Bloomsbury. But when they are introduced to flamboyant male admirers, their idyll is rocked and the sisters' relationship is threatened.
As war descends on Europe, the Bloomsbury friends struggle to build a life outside London. Virginia weds Leonard Woolf and begins a unique, unexpectedly happy marriage, which is in stark contrast to Vanessa and Clive's failing relationship. Vanessa comes to the painful realisation that she is in love with gay Duncan Grant and so begins a life devoted to him, painting and her children.
Twenty years have passed and it is 1937. Duncan and Vanessa remain at Charleston Farmhouse, painting, living and loving alongside each other. Vanessa’s children Julian, Quentin and Angelica also live with them. Julian is determined to fight against Franco in the Spanish civil war, while Angelica, who remains unaware of her true parentage, goes to London to become an actress.