Movements and schools
The Bloomsbury Group
The intellectual and literary circle of early twentieth-century London.
A district of London, a few houses, and a group of friends meeting on Thursday evenings from 1905: writers, painters, an economist, an art critic, all convinced that friendship and taste are worth more than Victorian propriety. Virginia Woolf wrote there a whole day inside the head of a woman giving a party, Forster asked how to connect two social worlds, Strachey demolished in four portraits the sanctity of the preceding age. The circle scandalised as much by its private lives as by its books.
works 5
- NovelHowards EndE. M. Forster · 1910Three families, a country house, and the question of who will inherit it.Literature
- EssayEminent VictoriansLytton Strachey · 1918Four lives of Victorian heroes, told without hagiography and without direct attack.Literature
- EssayVision and DesignRoger Fry · 1920A critic argues that a painting is not valuable for its subject, and draws the consequences from this over twenty years.Literature
- NovelMrs DallowayVirginia Woolf · 1925A single summer day, and two lives that never cross.LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelAll Passion SpentVita Sackville-West · 1931Six children decide their mother's fate after the funeral, without asking her opinion.Literature