Bloomsbury Group in LGBT history Monk's House, she would meet Vita Sackville-West, writing her Roman à clef about her. Woolf also met the LGBT people around her, including Harold Nicolson, Sackville-West's husband, Benedict Nicolson, their LGBT son and Violet Trefusis, her former lover. Composer and suffragist Ethel Smyth was another later acquaintance of Virginia Woolf. Bloomsbury Group in LGBT history The Bloomsbury Group plays a prominent role in the LGBT history of its day. While still in the Bloomsbury area LGBT activity was all very much in a single group. For example, Duncan Grant, a homosexual with bisexual leanings, had affairs with Maynard Keynes, James
East London Group preventing the Group reassembling after the Second World War. Several Group members continued to paint but they never exhibited as the East London Group again. Comparisons are sometimes drawn with the work of other artists. These include: Most of the East London Group’s work is held privately, often by members of the artists’ families. Around 80 pieces are in public collections in Britain and abroad. Awareness of the Group’s achievements has been rekindled in recent years. There have been a number of exhibitions (in central London and at Bow Arts' Nunnery Gallery) and the publication of a book, From Bow