Bloomsbury
group was a loose coterie of writers linked by friendship to the homes of
Vanessa Stephen (from 1907 Vanessa Bell) and her sister Virginia (from 1912
Virginia Woolf) in Bloomsbury—the university quarter of London near the British
Museum—from about 1906 to the late 1930s. In addition to the sisters and their
husbands—Clive Bell, the art critic, and Leonard Woolf, a political
journalist—the group included the novelist E. M. Forster, the biographer Lytton
Strachey, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the art critic Roger Fry. It
had no doctrine or aim, despite a shared admiration for the moral philosophy of
G. E. Moore, but the group had some importance as a centre of modernizing
liberal opinion in the 1920s, and later as the subject of countless memoirs and
biographies.