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The
Bloomsbury Group... The association stemmed from student friendship at Cambridge. Its members included E.M. Forster (Author) John Maynard Keynes (Economist) Virginia Woolf (Author) Vanessa Bell (Artist) Duncan Grant (Artist) Clive Bell (Art Critic) to name only a few. They remained a fairly tight-knit group for many years: recent biographers have attempted to detail their tangled personal relations.
Comprised
of Artists, Writers, Economists, Art Critics. A group of English intellectuals
active from the early 1900's until the 1930's, who met for discussion
in the Bloomsbury area of London in the early 20th century.
Others
in the Bloomsbury group exhibited similar bisexual tendencies. Although
Vanessa Stephen married Clive Bell, the great love of her life was Duncan
Grant, who was primarily gay and had been sexually involved with her
brother Adrian. During World War I, they lived together at a country
estate with David "Bunny" Garnett, who was a lover of both.
Triangular
relationships with a gay twist were common within the Bloomsbury circle.
Strachey was gay, but in the early days of Bloomsbury, he proposed marriage
to Virginia Stephen (Woolf). In the 1920s, he lived in platonic bliss
with surrealist painter Dora Carrington. When they both fell in love
with the same man, Carrington married the object of their mutual desire,
and the three set up housekeeping together. The cross-dressing Carrington
had affairs with women, confiding to a friend that she had "more
ecstasy" with female lovers than with men - "and no shame."
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Thanks
to Graham Mulrey for the help with the audio file. To Kay Lunt Mid Cheshire
College library for advice on research. |