" 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 ".

The Bloomsbury Group came from mostly upper middle-class professional families ; formed part of " an intellectual aristocracy which could trace itself back to the Clapham Sect ".

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.

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 )

However, the claim has been made that ( though factually accurate ) Woolf's formulation is " a little too dogmatic and definite and contributes to the false view that Bloomsbury was an entity, almost a formal body ", as opposed to " an informal group of friends, and nothing more ".

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 Bloomsbury Group Collection at the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto Victoria University Library has a number of special collections concerning the Bloomsbury Group.

Bloomsbury has no official boundaries, but can be roughly defined as the square bounded by Tottenham Court Road to the west, Euston Road to the north, Gray's Inn Road to the east, and either High Holborn or the thoroughfare formed by New Oxford Street, Bloomsbury Way and Theobalds Road to the south.

Since 1998, the British Library has been located in a purpose-built building just outside the northern edge of Bloomsbury, on Euston Road.

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

The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre which Wyndham Lewis and others established after disagreeing with Omega Workshops founder Roger Fry, and has roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism, and Futurism.

Bell ’ s reputation has led to his being underestimated in the history of Bloomsbury.

* Bloomsbury Blue b / w Save Me ; November 1988 ( 7 " and 12 "; 12 " also has Childs Song ).

UCL students, through the Union has nine weeks free access to put on student shows and events in the UCL-owned professionally run Bloomsbury Theatre.

Her husband's nephew Milo Keynes wrote a biography, Lydia Lopokova ( St. Martin's Press, 1983 ); more recently Judith Mackrell has published Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes ( Weidenfeld, 2008 ).

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

Bloomsbury has also further diversified into outsourcing and consultancy services which it provides to a partner organizations worldwide assisting them to set up and operate as book publishers and to create content-based products for publication.

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ’ s development has been driven by long term success in recognising talented authors of literary works of excellence and originality who have the potential to become bestsellers.

A strategic decision of the Bloomsbury Publishing Plc main Board has been to invest in growing the academic publishing side of the business organically and through further acquisitions.

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc group was an early adopter of ebooks and has produced ebooks since 2005.

She has written or illustrated more than a dozen books, including Unscientific Americans, Parallel Universes, Mondo Boxo, Proof of Life on Earth, The Four Elements and The Party After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995 – 2003 ( Bloomsbury, 2004 ).

Writer Nicholas Lemann has described the New York Intellectuals as " the American Bloomsbury ".

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.

* North Nechells, Bloomsbury and Duddeston has a young population compared with Birmingham overall

Under his editorship it was a literary review that featured work by T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, and other members of the Bloomsbury Group.

SPY: A Handbook, a companion book written by Harry Ferguson, a trainer featured on the show, was published in 2004 by Bloomsbury in the UK ( ISBN 0-7475-7523-1 ).

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 ".

Old Bloomsbury ’ s development was inevitably impacted on, along with just about everything else in modernist culture, by the First World War: indeed, " the small world of Bloomsbury was later said by some on its outskirts to have been irretrivably shattered ", though in fact its friendships " survived the upheavals and dislocations of war, in many ways were even strengthened by them ".

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

Bloomsbury have published translations in Latin and in Ancient Greek, and the latter was described as " one of the most important pieces of Ancient Greek prose written in many centuries ".

The estate includes several properties outside Bloomsbury also, with many of the University's colleges and institutes occupying their own estates across London.

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

The firm of Grissell and Peto ( 1830 – 1847 ) built many well-known buildings in London, including the Reform Club, the Oxford & Cambridge Club, the Lyceum, and St James's Theatre, Hungerford Market and Bloomsbury Chapel ( 1848 ), the first Baptist church with spires in London.

The Russell Square campus is located in Bloomsbury, an area at the corner of the West End known to many tourists for its shops, theatres and nightlife.

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.

Like many in the Bloomsbury group, Bell was heavily influenced in his account of value by the philosopher G. E.

In 1780, Abbott married Anna Maria, and again settled in London, residing for many years in Caroline Street in Bloomsbury.

* The Bloomsbury Group and Hogarth Press Collection at the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto which features all the Hogarth Press books hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf including many variant issues, bindings and proof copies.

Waley lived in Bloomsbury and had a number of friends among the Bloomsbury Group, many of whom he had met as an undergraduate.

This disturbed many of the pacifist members of the Bloomsbury Group of which Keynes was a member.