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Bloomsbury Group

An influential group of artists and writers who were friends during the first half of the 20th century. Our picture shows: Auberon Duckworth; Duncan Grant; Julian Bell; Leonard Woolf, and front: Virginia Woolf; Lady Margaret Duckworth; Clive Bell; Vanessa Bell. The Duckworths, although in the picture, were not in the Group, and missing from the picture are: Roger Fry; J M Keynes; Lytton Strachey; Otteline Morrell and Arthur Waley

The picture source website has a stab at disentangling their personal relationships. It is said that the Bloomsbury Group lived in Squares and loved in triangles.

We wonder if these intellectuals took part in a "Bloomsbury New Year" as described by Dorothy Richardson in her 1919 Pilgrimage 2 (Virago) page 323: "Eleven ... twelve. Across the rushing scale of St Pancras bells came a fearful clamour. Bicycle bells, cab whistles, dinner bells, the banging of tea-trays and gongs. Of course, New Year, it must be a Bloomsbury custom. She had had her share in a Bloomsbury  New Year."

The excellent Virginia Woolf Society has a page listing London plaques relevant to the Bloomsbury Group and its members.

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Bloomsbury Group

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Bloomsbury Group - Brunswick Square

Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least...

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Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square

Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th century the...

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Leonard Woolf's Ceylon

We have not followed all the various Sri Lankan lines of research opened up b...

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Sir Godfrey Kneller

Sir Godfrey Kneller

Portrait painter. His set of portraits of Kit-Cat Club members is on display in the National Portrait Gallery.

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1 memorial
Whitechapel Art Gallery
1 memorial
Marya Harris

Marya Harris

Mural artist.

Person, Art

1 memorial
John Skinner Prout

John Skinner Prout

Artist and lithographer. Born Plymouth. Elected to the Institute of Painters in Water Colour in 1838 and then, 2 years later, emigrated to Australia where he was extremely successful. Returned to ...

Person, Art, Australia

1 memorial
Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze

Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze

Painter, lover of the arts and benefactor of Regents Park.  Born London.  1907 he bought Grove House (sometimes Nuffield House) in Regent's Park, near St John's Wood church.  Set up the Constance F...

Person, Art

1 memorial

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R. W. Povey

R. W. Povey

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial