The Bloomsbury was the name given to the literary group that consisted of famous writers, artists and philosophers who lived in residential district near the British Museum in central London. The members of this group were individually known for their works in social sciences and arts that were chiefly motivated by a strong reaction against limitations of the late 19th century. .
Bloomsbury group included the writers Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Sidney Woolf, art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell, the economist John Maynard Keynes, the biographer Lytton Strachey, the literary and drama critic Desmond MacCarthy, the novelist and essayist E. M. Forster, and the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. .
The group itself originated during the first quarter of the 20th century. Thoby Stephen who was the brother of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen was primarily responsible for establishing the group when he introduced his sisters to his friends from Trinity College in Cambridge. The group began as a social circle where these people meet together on Thursday nights for drinks and conversation. Most of conversations and philosophical discussions were committed to a rejection of strict, traditional rules governing social interaction in English society at that time. Its members criticized one another's work and were all devoted to experimentation. The paintings and literature that were produced by these talented individuals has profoundly affected the development of the modern art and literature in Britain. .
They remained a fairly tight-knit group for many years. The group survived World War I but by the early 1930s had ceased to exist in its original form, having by that time merged with the general intellectual life of London. Due to its brilliance, variety and unique output, the group still remains as the focus of widespread study and popular interest.
New York: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books. 144pp. ... He unwittingly becomes involved in a dangerous hate group, dragging his brother along with him. ... But the fear of how the hate group would react if he pulled out is strong, and the threats are menacing. ...
In 1904 the Bloomsbury group, a circle of literary, artistic, and intellectual individuals, began meeting in their homes. Members of the group included Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Forster, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes, Victoria Sackville-West, Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, and Duncan Grant. Members of the Bloomsbury group "held in common a belief in the paramount importance of good taste, personal relationships, and the pursuit of knowledge" (Ford). A critical reader will note also that Forster uses Bloomsbury in A Room with a View (Forster 7). ... "Bloomsbury Group." ...
Some of the people that he met through the Apostles would later form the Bloomsbury group. The Bloomsbury group has been described as "a set of Bohemian thinkers and doers who revolted against the manners and morals of Victorian England". The group was comprised of Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, and Forster. ... When he returned from Greece he wrote for the Independent Review, which had been launched by a group of Cambridge friends. ...
From Woolf's beginnings as a writer in the Bloomsbury Group, she has set herself apart from other writers with her atypical style of writing, overzealous feminist directives, and rejection of the feminist label. ... Ives, resurrecting her parents, explaining her involvement with them and questioning at last the myth of sexual duality developed partly through her experience with her father and mother, partly in reaction to the masculinity of the Bloomsbury Group. ...
Her pattern of mental imbalance was well developed by the time she moved with her full brothers and sisters to the Bloomsbury section of London (Moore 4056-4058). ... Her great qualities and conversation skills helped her to become involved with the Bloomsbury Group. It was a group of gifted individuals who helped shape Virginia's literature (Moore 4056-4058). ... The group included Krist Novaselic and Dave Grohl. ...
Many aspects of writing catch a reader's attention and keep one interested in a book. E. M. Forster put many of these aspects in his books making them well written and quite interesting. He combined great characters, a decent story line, and his prolific knowledge of writing to make his books read...
he explores the lives of three different groups of people, each of which are symbolic of a particular social class: the literary, cultural Schlegal family, who represent the idealistic and intellectual aspect of the upper classes; the materialistic, pragmatic Wilcox family, who represent the "solid" English work ethic and conventional social morality; and the impoverished Bast family, headed by a lower-middle-class insurance clerk who desperately hopes books will save him from social and economic desolation. ... In A Passage to India, the story of false accusation against Aziz, an Indian, bec...
And even more curious was the drawing-room, which attempted to rival the solid comfort of a Bloomsbury boarding-house. ... Described as "indecorous proceedings- they upset the group until they are separated, leaving the unfortunate Persephone to follow on foot. ... Lavish's last book to a group, of no less than four people, when she adds, "This must on no account get around-(p. 60). ...
The works that would best depict the transition are Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - a tale of an experiment gone wild, Charles Dickens" Oliver Twist - the story of an orphan facing the realities of the world at too tender an age, and Yeats" poems that offer a glimpse of the modernist views held by the people of the era, such as the Bloomsbury Group. ...
