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Bloomsbury Group

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Definition: The Bloomsbury Group was a group of artists and writers who held discussions in Bloomsbury (a district in London). The timeline for this group is usually thought to be around 1907-1930's. One of the most famous members of the group was Virginia Woolf.
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  • Virginia Woolf
  • E. M. Forster
  • Clive Bell
  • Lytton Strachey
  • John Maynard Keynes
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