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Over the years, Charleston Farmhouse was home to not only Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and their family but to their extended family, their friends, and their lovers.<\/p>\n
In 1916, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved to the Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex. Living at the house along with Bell and Grant were her two sons Julian and Quentin and Grant\u2019s friends and lover David Garnett. Due to both Grant and Garnett being conscientious objectors of the First World War, they needed to find work on a farm otherwise they would have gone to prison. Grant and Garnett were able to find work on a farm near the Charleston Farmhouse, so that is why they chose that location to live.<\/p>\n
Prior to 1916, Vanessa Bell had been living at Little Talland House and Asheham House with where Virginia and Leornard Woolf lived. Vanessa Bell\u2019s husband, Clive Bell, ended up living and farming at Garsington Manor, the house of Lady Ottoline Morrell.<\/p>\n Throughout the war years, the Charleston Farmhouse became more than just Vanessa and Duncan\u2019s home. It became the country retreat for the Bloomsbury group. Common visitors were Clive Bell and his companion Mary Hutchinson. Another regular visitor was Roger Fry, the art critic and founder of the Omega Workshops. Jonh Maynard Keynes visited so frequently that he had his own room in the house. Some other visitors were, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Lytton Strachey, and E.M. Forster. All these visitors came to experience the house. Some days there would be no hot water to warm the guests. Other days, instead of ordering one turkey for 11 people, they ordered 11 turkeys. This house was always welcoming to Bloomsbury members. At this house, many Bloomsbury members were inspired and completed some of their work. One being John Maynard Keynes who wrote the book that made him famous while he was at Charleston. He wrote the book,\u00a0The Economic Consequences of the Peace<\/em> in 1919. Vanessa Bell<\/p>\n “The house seems full of young people in very high spirits, laughing a great deal at their own jokes…lying about in the garden which is simply a dithering blaze of flowers and butterflies and apples,” wrote Vanessa in 1936<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Following the First World War, the house because the holiday home for Bell and Grant. With the threat of the Second World War, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Clive Bell all decided to make Charleston their principal home.<\/p>\n Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant lived at Charleston up until their deaths. Bell died in 1961 and Grant in 1978. Following their deaths, Angelica, their daughter, lived there until 1980 when she died. In that same year, The Charleston Trust was formed to preserve the house as it was in the 50s.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/british-modernism-undergraduate\/files\/2017\/11\/book-129x210.jpg\")