Volume 22, Number 6 · April 17, 1975
Bloomsbury Variations
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary, and Criticism
edited by S.P. Rosenbaum
University of Toronto Press, 444 pp., $10.00 (paper)
The Loving Friends: A Portrait of Bloomsbury
by David Gadd
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 210 pp., $6.95
Personal Record, 1920-1972
by Gerald Brenan
Knopf, 381 pp., $12.50
Bloomsbury is a part of west-central London that includes the British Museum, University College, and the Slade School of Art; so it peculiarly suits intellectual temperaments. Once fasionable, it had declined by the turn of our century into a region of boarding houses and private hotels. Here the children of Sir Leslie Stephen chose to settle after their father's death, abandoning the far more respectable address where he had darkened their youth with his years of invalidism. A number of friends and acquaintances soon came to live near by, but only the intimates of the two daughters and their husbands are identified as the 'Bloomsbury Group'
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