Bloomsbury Group

British  

noun

1. a group of writers, artists, and intellectuals living and working in and around Bloomsbury in London from about 1907 to 1930. Influenced by the philosophy of G. E. Moore, they included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and John Maynard Keynes

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Example Sentences

Milne was clever, particularly at math, winning scholarships and, once he arrived at Cambridge, hanging out with members of the Bloomsbury Group.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The house’s Paris Fashion Week show was an homage to late British painter Duncan Grant and celebrated member of London’s Bloomsbury Group, who died in 1978.

From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2022

This outstanding intellectual biography situates the development of Keynes’s economic thought in relation to his social milieu, including his coming-of-age amid the bohemian experimentation of the Bloomsbury Group.

From New York Times • May 28, 2020

I for one applaud this move, and look forward to seeing Edith rub elbows with the Bright Young Things and the Bloomsbury Group while wearing all manner of fabulous outfits.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2016

It helps to know something about the Bloomsbury Group to catch the nuances of the story, but not so much that the novel’s omissions are distracting.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2015