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'''The Bloomsbury Group''' were a loose collection of writers and artists who lived in [[Bloomsbury]], London, during the first half of the 20th Century. | '''The Bloomsbury Group''' were a loose collection of writers and artists who lived in [[Bloomsbury]], London, during the first half of the 20th Century. | ||
| − | There is no definitive list of who belonged to the group. "Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as 'Old Bloomsbury' Vanessa and Clive Bell, [[Virginia Woolf|Virginia]] and Leonard Woolf, [[Adrian Stephen|Adrian]] and | + | There is no definitive list of who belonged to the group. "Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as 'Old Bloomsbury' Vanessa and Clive Bell, [[Virginia Woolf|Virginia]] and Leonard Woolf, [[Adrian Stephen|Adrian]] and Karin Stephen, [[Lytton Strachey]], [[Maynard Keynes]], [[Duncan Grant]], [[E M Forster]], [[Saxon Sydney-Turner]], [[Roger Fry]], [[Desmond MacCarthy|Desmond]] and [[Mary (Molly) MacCarthy|Molly MacCarthy]], with Julian, Quentin and Angelica Bell, and [[David Garnett]] as later additions".<ref>Hermione Lee, p. 263</ref> However, the claim has been made that (though factually accurate) Woolf's formulation is "a little too dogmatic and definite and contributes to the false view that Bloomsbury was an entity, almost a formal body", as opposed to "an informal group of friends, and nothing more".<ref>David Gadd, ''The Loving Friends: A Portrait of Bloomsbury'' (London 1974) p. 45 and p. 1</ref> |
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Revision as of 10:57, 11 June 2012
The Bloomsbury Group were a loose collection of writers and artists who lived in Bloomsbury, London, during the first half of the 20th Century.
There is no definitive list of who belonged to the group. "Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as 'Old Bloomsbury' Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, E M Forster, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Roger Fry, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, with Julian, Quentin and Angelica Bell, and David Garnett as later additions".[1] However, the claim has been made that (though factually accurate) Woolf's formulation is "a little too dogmatic and definite and contributes to the false view that Bloomsbury was an entity, almost a formal body", as opposed to "an informal group of friends, and nothing more".[2]
