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Get an overview of this writing group, a list of its authors, links to profiles of each, and a list of modernist authors influenced by the group.
Books About the Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group was a group of artists and writers in the early 20th century. Ray Costelloe called them "very fascinating, queer, self-absorbed, fantastic set of people..." The group included: Vanessa (Stephen) Bell, Virginia (Stephen) Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Thoby Stephen, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and E.M. Forster.
Books About Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941) British writer. Virginia Woolf was a prolific novelist and essayist, publishing more than 500 essays. Woolf was part of the Bloomsbury group. In "A Room of One's Own" (1929), she wrote, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf committed suicide in 1941.
Bloomsbury Comes In From The Cold
This article, by Maev Kennedy, looks at reconstructing the current negative attitude towards the Bloomsbury Group. Includes a list of group members and their notable achievements.
Bloomsbury Group - Omega Workshop & Hogarth Press
Introduction to this artistic movement includes author profiles and excerpts, and painting galleries.

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