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Bloomsbury GroupIntellectual circle of writers and artists based in Bloomsbury, London, which flourished in the 1920s. It centred on the house of publisher Leonard Woolf and his wife, novelist Virginia Woolf. Typically modernist, their innovative artistic contributions represented an important section of the English avant-garde. The circle included the artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, the biographer Lytton Strachey, art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell, and the economist John Maynard Keynes. From their emphasis on close interpersonal relationships and their fastidious attitude towards contemporary culture arose many accusations of elitism. They also held sceptical views on social and political conventions and religious practices. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The literary biography I've most enjoyed this year so far was Frances Partridge by Anne Chisholm (Weidenfeld, [pounds sterling]25), a beautifully poised account of the very last of the Bloomsberries, for long an apparently minor figure who turned out in old age to be one of our great diarists. of Nazism, to the free sex (and emotional pain) of the Bloomsberries, the aesthetic ideals of the Bauhaus -- and the Panacea Society of Bedford. climate of the Bloomsberries, and love of, and skill at, good conversation, he had one fatal flaw, his enemy of promise, congenital idleness. |
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