The collection was first found in the papers of her husband, used by Quentin Bell in Woolf's biography, published in 1972.

Quentin Bell, Woolf's biographer, saw "The Years" as "a step back, or at least a step in another direction.

Bloomsbury recalled, by Quentin Bell.

"Hugh is like the Jewish zoology student," she says to a fellow guest, Quentin Bell, over drinks.

Quentin Bell's son, Julian's nephew, is also named Julian Bell.

December 16 - Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (born 1910)

After three failures I have changed my mind," Quentin Bell writes.

Quentin Bell, inset, who died in 1996 at age 86, was the last living witness to the Bloomsbury group.

(text: Quentin Bell; photographs selected by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim).

Classical forms sit side by side with life-size works by Quentin Bell, mosaic pavements and tile edged pools.