BLOOMSBURY GROUP

A coterie of English writers, philosophers, and artists.

The name was a reference to the Bloomsbury district of London, where between about 1907 and 1930 the group frequently met to discuss aesthetic and philosophical questions. Among the group were E.M. Forster , Lytton Strachey , Clive Bell , the painters Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) and Duncan Grant (1885–1978), John Maynard Keynes , the Fabian writer Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), and Virginia Woolf .