S. P. Rosenbaum

"The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their innovative approach to art, design and society." "The Group began the twentieth century with a desire to rebel and challenge the religious, artistic, social and social taboos of Victorian England. Together they achieved a revolution in British style that resonates with contemporary painters, writers, actors, designers, fashion editors and publishers." "This book explores the impact of Bloomsbury personalities on each other, as well as how they shaped the development of British Modernism. Author Frances Spalking demonstrates how this network of artists, lovers and patrons recorded one another obsessively in both words and images. She presents nineteen fascinating biographies, all of which are illustrated with paintings and intimate photographs created by members of the Group. Included in her revealing account are: Virginia and Leonard Woold, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Roger Fry, J.M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington."--Jacket.

The Bloomsbury Group consisted of socially related English writers and intellectuals. Some of these met secretly, 1919- approximately 1963 as a Memoir Club to read each other personal memoirs. As members died, new ones were enrolled. They included Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Roger Fry, J.M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Molly and Desmond MacCarthy and Duncan Grant. S.P. Rosenbaum had already published a collection of much of the surviving memoirs and had begun writing this work, a history and an analysis. Although unfinished, the account of the early years is nearly complete

Georgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and continued with Edwardian Bloomsbury (1994). Covering the years between the first post-impressionist exhibition and World War I, the book describes and analyzes interrelated literary works by Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. The works considered include fiction, criticism, essays, and polemics as well as autobiography journalism, and literary history that members of the Bloomsbury Group wrote between 1910 to 1940. The history opens with an account of the Bloomsbury Group's literary post-impressionism, continues with an account of E. M. Forster's pre-war Georgian writings, including Maurice, and then discusses Lytton Strachey's history of French Literature. After a chapter on the Bloomsbury Group's Georgian journalism, the literary history of Old Bloomsbury concludes with a discussion of Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, and Leonard Woolf's last novel, The Wise Virgins.