Bloomsbury Group don't like anything that sets itself up as an in-group or an elite, whether it is the Bloomsbury group or Derrida". Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. This loose collective of friends and relatives was closely associated with Cambridge University for the men and King's College London for the women, and they lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London. According to Ian Ousby, "although its members denied being
The Duchess and the Jeweller The Duchess and the Jeweller "The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938) is a short story by Virginia Woolf. Woolf, being an advocate of addressing the "stream of consciousness," shows the thoughts and actions of a greedy jeweller; Woolf makes a thematic point that corrupt people do corrupt actions for purely selfish motives (and often without regret). It was first published in British "Harper's Bazaar" Magazine in April 1938 and subsequently published posthumously in 1944 in the collection "A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. Oliver Bacon is this story's protagonist. Once a poor boy in the streets of London, he