[vorl] In this book about one of art history’s famed yet critically unexplored Madonnas, the archive of the British artist Vanessa Bell is investigated. The volume unravels the ways in which the figure of the mother haunts the Charleston house museum. It will be the first monograph to tackle Charleston, Vanessa Bell, and the house museum in this way, contributing to the subject within the frameworks of feminist and queer theories, and practice.