Volume 16, Number 12 · July 1, 1971
A Hidden Life
By Gerald Brenan
Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries
chosen and with an Introduction by David Garnett
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 514 pp., $12.50
The group of writers and painters known as Bloomsbury is unique in English literary history because its members formed a closely knit circle which met regularly over many years and held to certain general principles. Its origins go back to undergraduate days at Cambridge when seven of its members had belonged to a secret discussion society known, because they numbered twelve, as the Apostles. The rules of this society, to which Tennyson had belonged, required absolute frankness and candor in discussion: no subjects were barred and the most personal remarks and criticisms could be made without giving offense.
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