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An historical feature of these friends and relations is that their close relationships all predated their fame as writers, artists, and thinkers.

Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes ’ s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".

Members cited in " other lists might include Ottoline Morrell, or Dora Carrington, or James and Alix Strachey "; but even such a close associate as Virginia Woolf's long term lover Vita Sackville-West-" Vita would be the Hogarth Press's best-selling author "-belonged to a different literary grouping.