The Bloomsbury Group — or Bloomsbury Set — was an enormously influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

Indeed much of the interest in Bloomsbury has been biographically driven, yet it is their achievements as writers, artists, and thinkers that have ultimately made their lives biographically interesting.

The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group ( also Bloomsbury Set ) of artists, the most famous of whom was Virginia Woolf, who met in private homes in the area in the early 1900s, and to the lesser known Bloomsbury Gang of Whigs formed in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.

He was also a consistent collector and supporter of the works of the avant-garde artists Mark Gertler, Duncan Grant, David Bomberg and Paul Nash, all of whom were also associated with the Bloomsbury Group.

Later, Lady Ottoline remained a regular host to the adherents of the Bloomsbury Group, in particular Virginia Woolf, and to many other artists and authors, who included WB Yeats, LP Hartley, T. S.

She was a French Swiss girl whom he had met at Garsington Manor, the country house of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a Bloomsbury Group socialite with a penchant for artists and intellectuals.

She has some success as a writer of detective stories, living and socialising with other artists in Bloomsbury.

That same year, Fry met the artists Vanessa Bell and her husband Clive Bell, and it was through them that he was introduced to the Bloomsbury Group.

Hawidge Mill ( also known as Cholesbury Mill ), as it strides the boundary between the two villages, became associated with members of two artists ' groups, the Bloomsbury Group and the lesser known London Group around the time of the First World War.

In 1922, Lytton Strachey and Ralph Partridge, both members of the Bloomsbury group, bought Ham Spray House ( for £ 2, 300 ), and several of that group and other writers and artists spent time there from then until Ralph died in 1960, including:

All three Sitwells wrote ; for a while their circle was considered by some to rival Bloomsbury, though others dismissed them as attention-seekers rather than serious artists.

In addition to the house and artists ' garden, there is an exhibition gallery showing an exciting mix of contemporary and historical shows of fine and decorative art, a Crafts Council selected shop selling applied art and books relating to Bloomsbury, a small tea room and a video presentation.

Over the following half century Charleston became the country meeting place for the group of artists, writers and intellectuals known as Bloomsbury.

The rooms on show form a complete example of the decorative art of the Bloomsbury artists: murals, painted furniture, ceramics, objects from the Omega Workshops, paintings and textiles.

The Charleston Trust is a charity set up in 1980 to restore and maintain the home of the Bloomsbury Group artists for the benefit of the public.

Politically, Bloomsbury held mainly left-liberal stances ( opposed to militarism, for example ); but its " clubs and meetings were not activist, like the political organizations to which many of Bloomsbury's members also belonged ", and they would be criticised for that by their 1930s successors, who by contrast were " heavily touched by the politics which Bloomsbury had rejected ".

Giles Gordon became her agent and sold the unfinished manuscript to Bloomsbury in early 2003, after two publishers rejected it as unmarketable.

In addition to traditional book publishing, Bloomsbury has developed a portfolio of innovative databases and other content-based subscription products.

That distinction is largely the result of an issue raised in Britain by the conflict between the followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, including William Morris, and the early modernists, including Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group.

Denis ' emphasis on the form of a work led the Bloomsbury writer Clive Bell to write in his 1914 book, Art, that there was a distinction between a thing's actual form and its ' significant form.

Distinguishing between ends and means was a commonplace of ethics, but what made Moore ’ s Principia Ethica ( 1903 ) so important for the philosophical basis of Bloomsbury thought was Moore's conception of intrinsic worth as distinct from instrumental value.

The campaign for women ’ s suffrage added to the controversial nature of Bloomsbury, as Virginia Woolf and some but not all members of the group perceived the connections between the politics of capitalism, imperialism, gender and aesthetics.

Politically the members of Bloomsbury were divided between liberalism and socialism, as can be seen in the respective careers and writings of Maynard Keynes and Leonard Woolf.

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, in central London, between Euston Road and Holborn, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area.

St. George's Church, located on Bloomsbury Way in the south of the area, was built by Nicholas Hawksmoor between 1716 and 1731.

It is generally regarded as marking the boundary between Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, linking Somers Town with Soho at either end.

Fitzrovia is a neighbourhood in central London, near London's West End lying partly in the London Borough of Camden ( in the east ) and partly in the City of Westminster ( in the west ); and situated between Marylebone and Bloomsbury and north of Soho.

The Brunswick Centre is a grade II listed residential and shopping centre in Bloomsbury, Camden, London, England, located between Brunswick Square and Russell Square.

Senate House is the administrative centre of the University of London, situated in the heart of Bloomsbury, London between the School of Oriental and African Studies to the east, with the British Museum to the south.

Letters can also be potent conveyors of homoerotic feelings ; the letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, two well-known members of the Bloomsbury Group, are full of homoerotic overtones characterized by this excerpt from Vita's letter to Virginia: " I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia [...] It is incredible to me how essential you have become [...] I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this -- But oh my dear, I can't be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that.

Trackage was later dismantled between Phillipsburg and Bloomsbury, where the line connects with Norfolk Southern's parallel Lehigh Line.

Designed by Thomas Cubitt and built between 1829 and 1847, it is named after Woburn Abbey, the main country seat of the Dukes of Bedford, who developed much of Bloomsbury.

Bloomsbury was also part of Fry ’ s extension of post-impressionism into the decorative arts with his Omega Workshops, which lasted until 1920.

Dora de Houghton Carrington ( 29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932 ), known generally as Carrington, was a British painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey.

Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury group is an example of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's decorative style within a domestic context and represents the fruition of over sixty years of artistic creativity.

These " Bloomsbury assumptions " are also reflected in members ' criticisms of materialistic realism in painting and fiction, influenced above all by Clive Bell's " concept of ' Significant Form ', which separated and elevated the concept of form above content in works of art ": it has been suggested that, with their " focus on form ... Bell's ideas have come to stand in for, perhaps too much so, the aesthetic principles of the Bloomsbury Group ".

For both Moore and Bloomsbury, the greatest ethic goods were " the importance of personal relationships and the private life ", as well as aesthetic appreciation: " art for art's sake ".

Clive Bell polemicized post-impressionism in his widely read book Art ( 1914 ), basing his aesthetics partly on Roger Fry ’ s art criticism and G. E. Moore ’ s moral philosophy ; and as the war came he argued provocatively that " in these days of storm and darkness, it seemed right that at the shrine of civilization-in Bloomsbury, I mean-the lamp should be tended assiduously ".

Roger Fry wrote and lectured widely on art ; while Clive Bell applied Bloomsbury values to his book Civilization ( 1928 ), which Leonard Woolf saw as limited and elitist, describing Clive as a " wonderful organiser of intellectual greyhound racing tracks ".

Much work on Bloomsbury continues to focus on the group ’ s class origins and alleged elitism, their satire, their atheism, their oppositional politics and liberal economics, their non-abstract art, their modernist fiction, their art and literary criticism, and their non-nuclear family and sexual arrangements.

Roger Eliot Fry ( 14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934 ) was an English artist and art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.

However, the modular ex-BT building occupied by McCann-Erickson was demolished in 2006 after the firm moved to an art deco home in Bloomsbury.

Ogden ran a network of bookshops in Cambridge, selling also art by the Bloomsbury Group.

Jacket art of the Bloomsbury edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Jacket art of the Bloomsbury edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Jacket art of the Bloomsbury edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Jacket art of the Bloomsbury edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Jacket art of the Bloomsbury edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Cover art by Jason Cockcroft © 2003 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The Bloomsbury Review called it " a superb example of the art of cartooning: the blending of word and picture to achieve an effect that neither is capable of without the other.

Bloomsbury Group members Roger Fry and Clive Bell were notable English pre-war art critics.

Among his pupils were John Wood, who produced a portrait of Baynes, Sir Henry Sass who founded a school of art, " Sass's Academy ", in Bloomsbury and J. D.

The unique collection at Charleston is illustrative of the art and lifestyle of the influential Bloomsbury Group and has been on show to the public since 1986.

There is also another single night event, The Quentin Follies, named after Quentin Bell, the son of Vanessa Bell, that raises money to buy back works of art by the Bloomsbury Set that are privately owned.