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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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Howard Carter

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Cyril Mann

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