Bloomsbury Group
London intellectual circle
The Bloomsbury Group was an influential circle of English writers, intellectuals, and artists active in the early twentieth century, centered in London's Bloomsbury district.
Members included Virginia Woolf, E.M.
Forster, John Maynard Keynes, and Lytton Strachey.
They rejected Victorian conventions in art, sexuality, and social life, favoring aesthetic experience and personal relationships over traditional morality.
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