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Bloomsbury Group

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Noun1.Bloomsbury Group - an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles
clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp, pack - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen, Bell - English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
Fry, Roger Eliot Fry, Roger Fry - English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant, Grant - Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
John Maynard Keynes, Keynes - English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)
Giles Lytton Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Strachey - English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Woolf - English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)

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It is through the Bloomsbury Group that Virginia met Leonard Woolf, with whom she shared a sexless marriage.
The Bloomsbury group is thus often credited with being a catalyst in the formation of modern British taste.
Milne--no less than the Bloomsbury group or the Romantics--form an identifiable literary movement, one which has exerted a powerful effect in liberating our imaginations and the attitude we take toward children.
 
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