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Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton

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November 2012, no. 346

Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton

Yale University Press (Inbooks), $54.95 hb, 393 pp, 9780300154474

Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton

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November 2012, no. 346

‘Victorian Bloomsbury’ appears to be a contradiction in terms. ‘Bloomsbury’, as in ‘the Bloomsbury Group’, is shorthand for the group of writers, artists, and thinkers including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Maynard Keynes, who gathered in the area of central London between Euston Road and Holborn in the early decades of the twentieth century. Disparate in some ways, they united in reaction against what they felt to be the oppressive social conventions and outmoded values of the Victorian period, a reaction epitomised by Lytton Strachey’s irreverent Eminent Victorians (1918).

Maraget Harris reviews 'Victorian Bloomsbury' by Rosemary Ashton

Victorian Bloomsbury

by Rosemary Ashton

Yale University Press (Inbooks), $54.95 hb, 393 pp, 9780300154474

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