Virginia Nicholson


Virginia Nicholson, née Bell 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.

Family

Her father was the writer and art historian Quentin Bell and her mother was Anne Olivier Bell who edited the diaries of Virginia Woolf to whom Virginia is related. She married writer William Nicholson in 1988.

Selected publications