Origins Bloomsbury Group

left right: lady ottoline morrell, maria nys (neither members of bloomsbury), lytton strachey, duncan grant, , vanessa bell

all male members of bloomsbury group, except duncan grant, educated @ britain s cambridge (either @ trinity or king’s college). of them, except clive bell , stephen brothers, members of exclusive cambridge society, apostles . @ trinity in 1899 lytton strachey, leonard woolf, saxon sydney-turner , clive bell became friends thoby stephen, , through thoby , adrian stephen s sisters vanessa , virginia men met women of bloomsbury when came down london.

in 1905 vanessa began friday club , thoby ran thursday evenings , became basis bloomsbury group, cambridge in london . thoby s premature death in 1906 brought them more firmly , became known old bloomsbury group met in earnest beginning in 1912. in 1920s , 1930s group shifted when original members died , next generation had reached adulthood.

blue plaque, 51 gordon square, london

the bloomsbury group, upper middle-class professional families, formed part of intellectual aristocracy trace clapham sect . informal network of influential group of artists, art critics, writers , economist — many of whom lived in west central 1 district of london known bloomsbury. spiritually similar clapham group supported members careers: bloomsberries promoted 1 s work , careers original claphamites did, intervening generations of grandparents , parents.

a historical feature of these friends , relations close relationships pre-dated fame writers, artists, , thinkers.