Bloomsbury Group was an informal association of English intellectuals, most of them educated at Cambridge University. They met frequently from about 1906 to 1930 in the houses of Virginia Stephen, her sister Vanessa, and her brother Adrian. Their homes were in a section of London called Bloomsbury. Virginia Stephen gained fame as the novelist Virginia Woolf after her marriage in 1912 to Leonard Woolf, a member of the group.
The Bloomsbury Group included the art critics Clive Bell and Roger Fry, the painter Duncan Grant, the author E. M. Forster, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the biographer Lytton Strachey. Others who sometimes met with the group included the poet T. S. Eliot, the author Aldous Huxley, and the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
The group discussed and debated questions of art, morality, philosophy, and religion. The members had no single position on any issue but opposed what they felt was the conservatism of English society in matters of religion and morality. From an irreverent and agnostic perspective, they dedicated themselves to seeking truth through the use of reason.
