Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set or just "Bloomsbury", as its adherents ("members" is probably too formal a designation) would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars that existed from around 1905 until around World War II.

Impact

The opinions and beliefs of the Bloomsbury Group remained controversial and widely critiziced through World War II, but have since then gradually entered the mainstream. Contemporary criticism mostly focuses on the subtle elitism in their writings.

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Clive Bell's writings helped persuade the British to proactively dismantle their empire, foreshadowing the eventual collapse of Colonialism in Europe. Keynes' writings have become a mainstay of Economic theory. Virginia Woolf is a highly read writer whose Feminist beliefs were beyond her times.

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The group is remembered mostly for the individual artistic output of its members rather than any collaborative achievement. Since the last decades of the 20th century, the complex inter-personal relationships within the group have attracted scholarly attention.

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