Virginia Nicholson

Virginia Nicholson (née Bell; born 1955) 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. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019.

Family Her father was the writer and art historian Quentin Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf; her mother, Anne Olivier Bell, edited Virginia Woolf's diaries. She married writer William Nicholson in 1988. Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War. Viking, 2007. Millions Like Us: Women's Lives During the Second World War. Viking, 2011. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s. Viking, 2015.