![]() ![]() The Bloomsbury Group, mostly from upper middle-class professional families, formed part of "an intellectual aristocracy which could trace itself back to the Clapham Sect". In the 1920s and 1930s the group shifted when the original members died and the next generation had reached adulthood. Thoby's premature death in 1906 brought them more firmly together and they became what is now known as the "Old Bloomsbury" group who met in earnest beginning in 1912. In 1905 Vanessa began the "Friday Club" and Thoby ran "Thursday Evenings", which became the basis for the Bloomsbury Group, which to some was really "Cambridge in London". At Trinity in 1899 Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Saxon Sydney-Turner and Clive Bell became good friends with Thoby Stephen, and it was through Thoby and Adrian Stephen's sisters Vanessa and Virginia that the men met the women of Bloomsbury when they came down to London. ![]() Most of them, except Clive Bell and the Stephen brothers, were members of "the exclusive Cambridge society, the ' Apostles'". ![]() Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maria Nys (neither members of Bloomsbury), Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa BellĪll male members of the Bloomsbury Group, except Duncan Grant, were educated at Cambridge (either at Trinity or King's College). ![]()
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