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| Back | about 1905-1941 Lytton Strachey 's death in 1932 and Virginia Woolf's suicide in 1941 can both be seen and ends of an era their philosophy can perhaps best be summarized in Moore's statement that one's prime object in life were love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience and the pursuit of knowledge'. they were sceptical and tolerant, reaction against the artistic and social restrains of Victorian society The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century,[1] including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. This loose collective of friends and relatives was closely associated with the University of Cambridge for the men and King's College London for the women, and they lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London. According to Ian Ousby, "although its members denied being a group in any formal sense, they were united by an abiding belief in the importance of the arts."[2] Their works and outlook deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality.[3] A well-known quote, attributed to Dorothy Parker, is "they lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles". |
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