" He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, a highly influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, and the editor of the influential journal Mind.

He was admired by and influential among other philosophers, and also by the Bloomsbury Group, but is ( unlike his colleague Russell ) mostly unknown today outside of academic philosophy.

It appeared in Europe in such critical movements as Dada and then in constructive movements such as surrealism, as well as in smaller movements such as the Bloomsbury Group, which included British novelists Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster.

Attitudes in the Bloomsbury Group, in which Keynes was avidly involved, were relaxed about homosexuality.

Like several other notable British authors of his time, Keynes was a member of the Bloomsbury Group.

Category: Bloomsbury Group

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.

< center > Detailed overview of the better and lesser known members of the Bloomsbury Group.

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 ".

Of the male members of the early Bloomsbury Group, all but Duncan Grant were educated at Trinity or King ’ s.

At Trinity in 1899 Strachey, Woolf, Sydney-Turner and Bell became good friends with Thoby Stephen, who introduced them to his sisters Vanessa and Virginia in London, and in this way the Bloomsbury Group came into being.

Following Virginia ’ s death Leonard Woolf began editing collections of her writings including a selection from her diaries, A Writer ’ s Diary ( 1953 ), which revealed publicly for the first time what the Bloomsbury Group had been like.

The Bloomsbury Group has featured in many works of fiction, including, notably, Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Susan Sellers ' Vanessa and Virginia.

If " the contempt or suspicion-the environment that a person or group creates around itself-is always a kind of alter ego, an essential and revealing part of the production ", there is perhaps much to be learnt from the ( extensive ) criticism that the Bloomsbury Group aroused.

* Rosenbaum, S. P ( ed ), A Bloomsbury Group Reader ( 1993 ); ( ed ), The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs and Commentary ( revised edition, 1995 ); " The Early Literary HIstory of the Bloomsbury Group: Victorian Bloomsbury ( 1987 ), Edwardian Bloomsbury ( 1994 ), Georgian Bloomsbury ( 2003 )

When they came down from college, the men of Cambridge began to meet the women of Bloomsbury through the Stephen family.

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 ".

For the next thirty years they came together in irregular meetings to write about the memories they shared in growing up together, at college, and later in Bloomsbury.

In many respects throughout its history Bloomsbury ’ s most incisive critics came from within.

This manoeuvre towards Bloomsbury came to little, with Eliot getting £ 50 and unwelcome publicity in the Liverpool Post, but gave Lytton Strachey an opening for mockery.

Many of its members went on to constitute what came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group, of which Forster was a peripheral member in the 1910s and 1920s.

Later in 1897 Wilde came to Headlam's house in Upper Bedford Place, Bloomsbury on his way from Pentonville Prison, from where he was released, to the boat train he caught before leaving the country never to return.

Being partner of an occult bookshop, The Atlantis Bookshop, in Bloomsbury, Brunton came into contact with both the literary and occult British intelligentsia of the 1920s.

In 1895, Parliament gave the Museum Trustees a loan of £ 200, 000 to purchase from the Duke of Bedford all 69 houses which backed onto the Museum building in the five surrounding streets-Great Russell Street, Montague Street, Montague Place, Bedford Square and Bloomsbury Street.

" Dear Mr Shaw Selections from Bernard Shaw's postbag " Bloomsbury, 1987 ISBN 0-7475-0256-0.

The lives and works of the group members show an overlapping, interconnected similarity of ideas and attitudes that helped to keep the friends and relatives together, reflecting in large part the influence of G. E. Moore: " the essence of what Bloomsbury drew from Moore is contained in his statement that ' one's prime objects in life were love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience and the pursuit of knowledge '".

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 growing threats of the 1930s brought new criticism from younger writers of " what the last lot had done ( Bloomsbury, Modernism, Eliot ) in favour of what they thought of as urgent hard-hitting realism "; while " Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, which called Bloomsbury élitist, corrupt and talentless, caused a stir " of its own.

* Manuscripts and Woodcuts: Visions and Designs from Bloomsbury – Duke University Libraries Digital Collections Includes 12 woodcuts by Roger Fry and the manuscript of Elizabeth and Essex written in Lytton Strachey's hand with 7 miscellaneous manuscript letters.

A large parcel of land in Bloomsbury near the British Museum was acquired from the Duke of Bedford and Charles Holden was appointed architect with the instruction to create a building " not to suggest a passing fashion inappropriate to buildings which will house an institution of so permanent a character as a University.

In 2007 The Spectator moved its offices from Doughty Street, which had been its home for 31 years, to 22 Old Queen Street in Westminster, leaving Bloomsbury for the first time since the paper ’ s founding in 1828.

For many years he worked from offices at 29 Bloomsbury Square, London.

Retrieved 8 March 2007 .</ ref > The name Bloomsbury is a development from Blemondisberi – the bury, or manor, of Blemond.

The main north-south road in west Bloomsbury is Gower Street which is a one-way road running south from Euston Road towards Shaftesbury Avenue in Covent Garden, becoming Bloomsbury Street when it passes to the west of the British Museum.

* the Bloomsbury Group, an English literary group active from around 1905 to the start of World War II

Islington remains a district with diverse inhabitants, with its millionaires ' houses and apartments not far from social housing in immediately neighbouring Islington districts such as Finsbury and Clerkenwell to the south, Bloomsbury and King's Cross to the west, and Highbury to the north west, and also the Hackney districts of De Beauvoir and Old Street to the north east.

After inheriting £ 1000 in 1778 from his uncle Thomas, he invested the money in building his first known independent works, 15-17 Bloomsbury Square and 66-71 Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury.

Bloomsbury was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 30, 1905, from portions of Bethlehem Township.

The high school also serves students from five sending communities: Alpha, Bloomsbury ( in Hunterdon County ), Greenwich Township, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township.

The high school also serves students from five communities as part of sending / receiving relationships: Alpha, Bloomsbury ( in Hunterdon County ), Greenwich Township, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township.

Socially Fredegond was on the fringe of the Bloomsbury group, but mostly resident in Cambridge.

* More people die young in North Nechells, Bloomsbury and Duddeston than Birmingham on average, mostly from: chronic liver disease including cirrhosis, suicide, injury undetermined and stroke