The Bloomsbury Group

The Cambridge-linked circle of writers, painters, and economists who remade English modernism from a few squares.

Specifications & Metrics

era

c. 1904 – 1940s

region

Bloomsbury, London

key figures

Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes

exemplar

Mrs Dalloway (1925); Eminent Victorians (1918)

introduced

1904

Core Principles & Analysis

• It began as Cambridge friendships around the Stephen siblings in 1904.
• Roger Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibitions of 1910–12 shocked London.
• Its members' essays, novels, and economics crossed disciplines by design.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Bloomsbury Group