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	Bloomsbury Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vanessa laid the foundation of Bloomsbury in 1904 by moving the Stephen family (the four children of Julia and Leslie Stephen -- Vanessa, Thoby, Virginia and Adrian) to Gordon Square, in the Bloomsbury area of London.
		The group gained notoriety in 1910 when many of its members were involved in the Dreadnought Hoax that embarrassed the British Navy and was deemed unpatriotic.
		The Bloomsbury Set could certainly be considered as a clique, including acquaintances, such as Lady Ottoline Morrell, whose estate in Garsington undoubtedly became another Bloomsbury centre, where the Bloomsberries mingled with other artists and intellectuals of their day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bloomsbury_group (1044 words)

	Bloomsbury group - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		BLOOMSBURY GROUP [Bloomsbury group] name given to the literary group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center of its activities from 1904 to World War II.
		The group began as a social clique: a few recent Cambridge graduates and their closest friends would assemble on Thursday nights for drinks and conversation.
		By the 1920s Bloomsbury's reputation as a cultural circle was fully established to the extent that its mannerisms were parodied and Bloomsbury became a widely used term connoting an insular, snobbish aestheticism.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bloomsbury.html (433 words)

	Bloosmbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		What made the Bloomsbury group different from mainstream British culture was their inclusion of women in their free speaking and uncensored discussions.
		One of the major changes that the Bloomsbury group brought to London society was a change in attitudes towards women's sexuality and the place of men and women in the domestic world.
		The group was gradually transformed from a private group of friends to a general phenomenon in London.
	cal.jmu.edu /aleysb/Bloomsbury.htm (2356 words)

	HERSTORY Lesbians in the arts
		In the district of London, Bloomsbury an ill-defined group of writers and artists formed for a period from before World War I to before World War II there was who lived and hovered around the area.
		Bloomsbury was an artistic and lifestyle, and also a group of original and creative individual whose lives have long fascinated the public imagination.
		It was a group of artists who were associated with them believed that the creative joy of the artist and craftsman should go into the making of articles for everyday use.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Suite/9048/BLOOMSBURY.html (594 words)

	The Bloomsbury Group - who were they?
		The Bloomsbury Group is a name given to a loose collection of writers, artists, and intellectuals who came together during the period 1905-06 at the home of Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell.
		Bloomsbury Recalled is written by Quentin Bell, one of the last surviving members of the Bloomsbury circle.
		Bloomsbury lies at the heart of the book in its portraits of Ralph Partridge, Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Katherine Mansfield, plus peripheral figures such as Arthur Ransome, Rupert Brooke, Augustus John, Nina Hamnett, and Dylan and Caitlin Thomas.
	www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/bloom-01.htm (1030 words)

	The Bloomsbury Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Bloomsbury Group was a collection of individuals that began as a friendship among students at all-male Cambridge and became an informal discussion group of young men and women.
		In the 1920s and 30s, the Bloomsbury Group lost 2 of its members – Roger Fry and Lytton Stracey died- and included the children of Vanessa and Clive – Julian and Quentin, and Vanessa’s daughter by Duncan Grant –; Angelica Bell and David Garnett.
		Group meeting were exciting and invigorating for Virginia as she describes in her diary: “ Suppose one’s normal pulse to be 70: in five minutes it was 120: and the blood, not the sticky whitish fluid of daytime but brilliant and prickly like champagne.
	faculty.colostate-pueblo.edu /katherine.frank/bloomsburysp.htm (1230 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bloomsbury group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bloomsbury group BLOOMSBURY GROUP [Bloomsbury group] name given to the literary group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center of its activities from 1904 to World War II.
		He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group.
		Both she and Nicolson were members of the Bloomsbury group.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/01587.html (693 words)

	museumnetwork.com - The Art of Bloomsbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The members of the group included Clive Bell, an art critic; Vanessa (Stephen) Bell, a painter and Virginia Woolf's sister; Roger Fry, an art critic and painter; Duncan Grant, a painter; John Maynard Keynes, an economist; Lytton Strachey, a historian; Leonard Woolf, a writer and publisher; and Virginia (Stephen) Woolf, a writer and publisher.
		At the center of the Bloomsbury group were three high Victorian families: the Frys, the Stephens, and the Stracheys.
		The art of Bloomsbury was a conversational art, lacking the high drama and reactions to violence and social change perpetuated by others.
	www.museumnetwork.com /features/06_12_highlight_bloomsbury.asp (432 words)

	Bloomsbury Improvement Group: Who we are (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bloomsbury is home to a number of world class organisations, primarily concerned with education, the arts and health care.
		Bloomsbury is considered one of the outstanding examples of classic urban design.
		There are opportunities for the occupiers of Bloomsbury, particularly the businesses and land owners, to work with the official agencies to jointly promote a series of practical improvements.
	www.casa.ucl.ac.uk /bloomsbury/www/who/index.html (472 words)

	Tate Archive Journeys \| Bloomsbury Group Profiles
		A biographer and essayist, Strachey became involved with Bloomsbury through his friendship with Vanessa Bell's brother Thoby Stephen, although in fact the whole Strachey family was involved in the history of Bloomsbury.
		He was deeply involved with the activities of the Bloomsbury Group, helped Roger Fry with the organisation of the second Post-Impressionist exhibition, and founded the Hogarth Press with Virginia Woolf.
		Acting as a hostess for the 'Thursday evenings' discussion group of writers and critics, she was very much at the heart of Bloomsbury.
	www.tate.org.uk /archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/group.htm (1021 words)

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		These new ideas, including labor unrest, Irish unrest, and a growing movement for womans' suffrage were occuring simultaneously as the growth of a group of friends who met to discuss ideas on art, literature and politics among other topics concerning the "modern" mind in a house in Bloomsbury, London.
		group was first and foremost a "society of equals, who had a similar background, who had few worldly pretensions, and who, although each member was an individual with a distinctive contribution to make to the group, had common interests and shared a point of view."
		While the group was a gathering of individuals who all had differing fields of study and philosophies, there were some underlying similarities in the aesthetics of the group.
	web.grinnell.edu /courses/eng/s05/eng224-01/wikis/Group-1 (1874 words)

	Snapshots: The Bloomsbury Group
		After several incarnations, the Bloomsbury Group came to be, officially between 1904 and 1905, after Virginia Stephen (soon to be Virginia Woolf) and her sister Vanessa moved to London following the death of their father.
		In this fashion, the Bloomsbury Group has also been roundly denounced as being a hotbed for snobbish clannishness whose meetings were viewed as nothing more than an attempt by its upper class members to remove themselves from mainstream society in order to feed their egos.
		What's the good of your writing?" In likening the Bloomsbury Group to a hothouse which encourages the growth of healthy art forms, it also encouraged, supported, and strengthened the genius of Virginia Woolf, for which modern readers and aspiring and established writers of both sexes should be forever grateful.
	www.feminista.com /archives/v1n5/wilson.html (3657 words)

	Amazon.com: Bloomsbury At Home: Books: Pamela Todd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bloomsbury at Home focuses upon the districts and houses where the artists and writers of the Bloomsbury group chose to live and how these places reflected their ideas on art and life.
		Bloomsbury at Home is a welcome addition to the bibliography of titles about the very interesting, influential and eccentric group of artists who flourished in England and France during the early part of the twentieth century.
		The really spectacular and original contribution of Bloomsbury at Home, however, comes with the reproduction of a number of paintings and drawings by the Bloomsbury group, which are otherwise difficult to find gathered in one place.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810941112?v=glance (1411 words)

	Bloomsbury History, A Guide to the History of Bloomsbury, London
		Bloomsbury is a corruption of Lomesbury, which was an ancient village that stood on the spot many years ago.
		This loose collective of writers, artists, critics and commentators came together in the belief that mutual artistic appreciation and promotion of each others work was the way to advance their individual and collective cultural agenda.
		Later, Bloomsbury attracted another group of intellectuals, but they were more interested in drinking than they were in discussing art.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /home_feat_local_bloomsbury_history.asp (358 words)

	BLOOMSBURY
		The Bloomsbury group was basically a group of like minded friends with a 'common attitude to life', many of whom had first met at Trinity College, Cambridge at the turn of the century.
		Bloomsbury writers included some of the great names of the 20th century; E.M.Forster, the critic and biographer Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf.
		The Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant were greatly influenced by the Post Impressionists and their painting celebrates the sensuous beauty of everyday domestic surroundings.
	www.artmovements.co.uk /bloomsbury.htm (176 words)

	London/Bloomsbury - Wikitravel
		Bloomsbury is a vibrant historic district of London made famous by a group of turn-of-the-century writers that included Virgina Woolf and E.M Forster ('the Bloomsbury Set') and for being the location of the British Museum, the British Library, the campus of University College London and any number of historic homes, parks, and buildings.
		Bloomsbury has a number of famous walks that cover the lives and works of the Bloomsbury Group.
		Bloomsbury is a good choice for accommodations due to the range of hostels, BandBs, budget hotels, and large 4 star hotels in the area.
	wikitravel.org /en/London/Bloomsbury (966 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Bloomsbury Group
		The Bloomsbury Group of artists and writers, active from early in the twentieth century until the Second World War, takes its name from the district of Bloomsbury, in central London, north-east of Piccadilly Circus, between Gower Street and High Holborn.
		The Bloomsbury Group evolved from the Thursday evening gatherings, beginning in 1904, of a few recent Cambridge graduates and their friends for the discussion of art, literature and philosophy.
		Lytton Strachey, one of the original members of the Group, regarded Moore as a modern Plato and optimistically dated the arrival of the new Age of Reason from the publication of his philosophy.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=130 (573 words)

	Bloomsbury Group Locations
		Virginia Woolf, the writer at the centre of the Bloomsbury Group, immortalized Anthony Panizzi’s oak panelled 1857 Reading Room at the then British Library, ‘the vast dome the huge, bald forehead which is so splendidly encircled by a band of famous names’, in A Room Of One’s Own (1929).
		Virginia, Vanessa, Adrian and Thoby Stephen’s home from 1904-7, is where the Bloomsbury Group began.
		Many members of the Bloomsbury Group either lived or worked at various addresses around the Square.
	www.thewordtravels.com /bloomsburygroup.html (524 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| Publications \| NPG Insights: The Bloomsbury Group
		This innovative new series aims to explore the ways in which groups of people are drawn together - whether by birth, via education or through their artistic and intellectual vision - to make a powerful impact on cultural history.
		The Group began the twentieth century with a desire to challenge what they felt were the religious, artistic, social and sexual taboos of Victorian England.
		She presents over twenty fascinating biographies, all of which are illustrated with paintings and intimate photographs created by members of the Group.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/pubbloomsbury.asp (440 words)

	Bloomsbury Guide - History, Orientation and Highlights of Bloomsbury, London
		Bloomsbury has long been associated with London intellectualism and is today home to a staggering variety of academic institutions.
		Bloomsbury isn't exactly gastro central, but does boast some very reasonable eateries.
		In summertime Bloomsbury is one of the prettiest areas of London, and one that generally avoids getting too busy.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /home_feat_local_bloomsbury.asp (335 words)

	Bloomsbury Group - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bloomsbury Group - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bloomsbury Group, popular collective designation for a number of English intellectuals prominent in the first quarter of the 20th century, all of...
		- London literary set: a group of artists and writers who congregated in the Bloomsbury area of London after World War I. They shared political views and an experimental approach to their respective fields.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Bloomsbury_Group.html (146 words)

	The Bloomsbury Group: creating a new modern world
		From the colorfully woven fabric of the group's intense conversation and interactions, individual masterpieces stand out: the novels of Virginia Woolf and Forster, the paintings of Vanessa Bell and Grant, Keynes' treatise on economics, Strachey's criticism of Victorian society and Fry's introduction of French post-Impressionism to England.
		But the Bloomsbury Group on its own cannot be given total credit for the advent of the modern.
		Bloomsbury Art in Bay Area Collections is part of the Britain Meets the Bay Festival and is co-sponsored by the British Council.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/cover/1997_May_23.ARTSIDE.html (673 words)

	An introduction to The Bloomsbury Group
		They remained a fairly tight-knit group for many years: recent biographers have attempted to detail their tangled personal relations.
		A group of English intellectuals active from the early 1900's until the 1930's, who met for discussion in the Bloomsbury area of London in the early 20th century.
		The romantic record of the group's members is noteworthy, because they demonstrated a sexual freedom that was ahead of their time.
	bloomsbury.denise-randle.co.uk /intro.htm (354 words)

	The Bloomsbury Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Bloomsbury group was a literary, artistic, and intellectual circle of friends who met at one another's homes in and around the Bloomsbury area of London in the early decades of the 20th century.
		Used initially to ridicule an apparently exclusive and pretentious group, the term Bloomsbury was later accepted by the group as its legitimate name.
		Although not a distinct literary school, the Bloomsbury group had a profound influence on English cultural life.
	www.honors.montana.edu /~oelks/TC/Bloomsbury.html (206 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Member of famed Bloomsbury Group dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Diarist Frances Partridge, last survivor of the literary Bloomsbury Group's most famous love quadrangle, has died.
		The group's tangled and scrupulously self-examined lives have been the subject of numerous books and continue to fascinate the public.
		Expressing puzzlement about the continuing interest in the Bloomsbury Group, Partridge said in 1994, "I would have thought people would find it rather dull but they still seem fascinated.
	www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2004/02/09/member_of_famed_bloomsbury_group_dies (628 words)

	USATODAY.com - Last survivor of famed Bloomsbury Group dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		LONDON —; Diarist Frances Partridge, last survivor of the literary Bloomsbury Group's most famous love quadrangle, has died at the age of 103.
		Partridge was Frances Marshall when she became one of the youngest of the Bloomsberries who gathered around writers Leonard and Virginia Woolf in the 1920s and 1930s.
		The group's tangled and scrupulously self-examined lives continue to fascinate readers.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-02-09-bloomsbury_x.htm (635 words)

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