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Duke in Depth: A Year of Bloomsbury
Major Figures |
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Virginia Woolf: novelist, essayist, and feminist, daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen (editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and student of Victorian social thought), wife of Leonard.
http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km_wrCyN5SA |
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Vanessa Bell: painter, Virginia's sister, and hostess at Charleston Farmhouse; wife of Clive Bell, mother of Julian, Quentin, and Angelica; sometimes lover of Roger Fry; longtime companion of Duncan Grant.
http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/bio_bell.htm
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/van-bel.htm |
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Duncan Grant: painter, much beloved of all Bloomsbury.
http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/bio_grant.htm
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/dungrant.htm |
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John Maynard Keynes: economist, public servant, Cambridge academic, founder of Keynesian macroeconomics, husband of Lydia.
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/keynes.html |
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Roger Fry: painter, art critic, art impresario, writer, all-around Renaissance man.
http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/bio_fry.htm
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/rog-fry.htm |
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Lytton Strachey: biographer, historian, essayist, iconoclast, longtime companion of Carrington.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/strachey.htm |
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Leonard Woolf: editor, publisher, essayist, socialist, political theorist, political commentator, Virginia's husband.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/l_woolf.htm |
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Clive Bell: art critic, political philosopher, bon vivant, Vanessa's husband.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/clive_bell.htm |
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Edward Morgan "E.M." Forster: novelist, essayist, and Cambridge don.
http://www.litweb.net/biography/172/E%20M_Forster.html |
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George Edward "G.E." Moore: Cambridge philosopher and ethicist, especially influential in early days of Bloomsbury.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moore/ |
Secondary Figures (with respect to Bloomsbury) |
| James Strachey: psychologist, Freud's translator and editor in English, Lytton's brother. |
| Desmond McCarthy: editor, theater critic, essayist, conversationalist. |
Dora Carrington: painter, Lytton's companion.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/carrington_a.htm |
| Ralph Partridge: minor novelist, Carrington's husband. |
| Thoby Stephen: brother of Virginia and Vanessa who brought Bloomsburys together but died as a young man from typhoid. |
| Lydia Lopokova: Keynes's wife and prima ballerina of the Russian ballet. |
| Mary "Molly" McCarthy: novelist and Desmond's wife. |
| Marjorie Strachey: novelist, Lytton's sister. |
Ottoline Morrell: grande dame and saloniere who had affairs with notable writers and artists of the period
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/morrell.htm |
Vita Sackville-West: novelist, gardener, close friend and lover of Virginia Woolf.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/vs-west.htm |
Harold Nicholson: Vita's husband, diplomat, and diarist.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/nicolson.htm |
| Alix Strachey: James's wife and partner in psychoanalysis. |
| Saxon Sydney-Turner: civil servant, essayist, notoriously silent, beloved friend of all. |
David Garnett: novelist, lover of Duncan, husband of Angelica.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a319/dgarnett.htm |
| Adrian Stephen: psychoanalyst, Virginia and Vanessa's brother, perpetrator of Dreadnaught hoax. |
Younger Members
Like most communities, Bloomsbury broadened over time, and in later generations became more diffuse. Among those in the second generation who remained close to the Bloomsbury tradition are: |
| Frances Partridge: Ralph Partridge's wife after Carrington's death and chronicler of the later Bloomsbury. |
Julian Bell: son of Clive and Vanessa, highly promising young scholar killed in Spanish civil war.
http://www.jbell.co.uk/home/ |
| Angelica Bell: daughter of Vanessa and Duncan Grant, artist, wife of David Garnett. (Critical of Bloomsbury in memoir.) |
| Quentin Bell: son of Clive and Vanessa, with wife, Olivier, one of the most
prolific and insightful interpreters of Bloomsbury. |
| George “Dadie” Rylands: poet, Cambridge don, theatrical producer, employee of Hogarth Press. |
Others:
A variety of prominent artists, intellectuals, and public figures of the first half of the twentieth century have some association with Bloomsbury, including Bertrand Russell, Robert Bridges, Charles Mauron, John Lehmann, Mark Gertler, Nina Hamnett, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, D.H. Lawrence, and Rupert Brooke. |
Schedule Outline
September 16
Bloomsbury, Gender, and Sexuality
October 30
Bloomsbury, Empire, and the Cosmopolitan
November 1
Creative Communities: Bloomsbury and Others
November 19
DukeReads Howards End
Opens December 15
"How full of life those days seemed": New Approaches to Art, Literature, Sexuality, and Society in Bloomsbury (Perkins Library)
Opens December 18
A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections
January 29
Bloomsbury Exhibition Panel at the Nasher
February 17
John Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury
February 27-28
Duke in Depth: Bloomsbury Vision & Design
March 5, 26, 29
Film Series at the Nasher
April 5
Vita & Virginia
For a detailed schedule, click here.
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