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- noun 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
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A number of friends and acquaintances soon came to live near by, but only the intimates of the two daughters and their husbands are identified as the 'Bloomsbury Group'
Bloomsbury Variations Ehrenpreis, Irvin 1975
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Fortunately, the country's leading critic, Roger Fry, and his friends in the Bloomsbury Group recognized the artist's real genius, and included Picasso in Fry's groundbreaking Post-Impressionist exhibitions in 1910 and 1912.
A Shortsighted View of Picasso Paul Levy 2012
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This year, it makes history by leaving its original home at Garsington Manor, the one-time summer retreat of the Bloomsbury Group, which included Garsington owner Lady Ottoline Morrell, artist Vanessa Bell and writers E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf.
Eat, Drink and Be Entertained Paul Levy 2011
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He is indisputably the writer who changed the nature of biography more than anyone with the exception of one of his own subjects, Lytton Strachey, the Bloomsbury Group historian who himself put an end to the Victorian practice of chronicling the lives of the great in detailed, multivolumed, but discreet accounts of their daily doings.
Revelations From a Biographer Paul Levy 2010
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Hoaxing the Royal Navy, throwing butter at lunch and leaving a Cézanne in a hedge - The Bloomsbury Group in action
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I would take "Economics in the Bloomsbury Group" at Duke.
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One does not readily associate the Bloomsbury Group with Christian art.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Hoaxing the Royal Navy, throwing butter at lunch and leaving a Cézanne in a hedge - The Bloomsbury Group in action
September 2009 2009
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The British Library has released a new collection in its popular series of literary spoken word CDs, featuring rare and previously unreleased historic recordings by and about members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, John Lehmann, Desmond MacCarthy and Vita Sackville-West.
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Peter Scott's Library Blog: Hoaxing the Royal Navy, throwing butter at lunch and leaving a Cézanne in a hedge - The Bloomsbury Group in action skip to main
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