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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Bloomsbury Group

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

Three years later, Fry rounded up Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and several other painters and writers associated with London’s bohemian Bloomsbury Group, and together they launched a radical design project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

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

They were all pivotal members of the Bloomsbury Group, whose attitudes toward love and marriage were as unconventional and as ahead of their time as their ideas about modern painting, literature and design.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2017

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