Membership Bloomsbury Group

members

the group had ten core members:

in addition these ten, leonard woolf, in 1960s, listed old bloomsbury adrian , karin stephen, saxon sydney-turner, , molly maccarthy, julian bell, quentin bell , angelica bell, , david garnett later additions . except forster, published 3 novels before highly successful howards end in 1910, group late developers.

there stable marriages , varied , complicated affairs among individual members. lytton strachey , cousin , lover duncan grant became close friends of stephen sisters, vanessa bell , virginia woolf. duncan grant had affairs siblings vanessa bell , adrian stephen, david garnett, maynard keynes, , james strachey. clive bell married vanessa in 1907, , leonard woolf returned ceylon civil service marry virginia in 1912. cambridge apostle friendships brought group desmond maccarthy, wife molly, , e. m. forster.

the group met not in homes in bloomsbury, central london, @ countryside retreats. there 2 significant ones near lewes in sussex: charleston farmhouse, vanessa bell , duncan grant moved in 1916, , monk s house (now owned national trust), in rodmell, owned virginia , leonard woolf 1919.

others

much bloomsbury appears controversial, including membership , name: indeed, maintain 3 words bloomsbury group have been used have become unusable .

close friends, brothers, sisters, , partners of friends not members of bloomsbury: keynes’s wife lydia lopokova reluctantly accepted group, , there writers @ time close friends of virginia woolf, distinctly not bloomsbury : t. s. eliot, katherine mansfield, hugh walpole . vita sackville-west, became hogarth press s best-selling author . members cited in other lists might include ottoline morrell, or dora carrington, or james , alix strachey .

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