HyperDic: bloomsbury_group

English > 1 sense of the expression Bloomsbury Group:
NOUNgroupBloomsbury Groupan inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles
English > Bloomsbury Group: 1 sense > noun 1, group
MeaningAn inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles.
MembersBell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa StephenEnglish painter
Fry, Roger Fry, Roger Eliot FryEnglish painter and art critic (1866-1934)
Grant, Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow GrantScottish painter
Keynes, John Maynard KeynesEnglish economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)
Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Giles Lytton StracheyEnglish biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Adeline Virginia Stephen WoolfEnglish author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue
Broaderclique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, campAn exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
SpanishCírculo de Bloomsbury
CatalanGrup Bloomsbury

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