Virginia Woolf friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, Woolf married Leonard Woolf and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. The couple rented second homes in Sussex and moved there permanently in 1940. Throughout her life, Woolf was troubled by bouts of mental illness, which included being institutionalised and attempting suicide. Her illness is considered to have been bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective intervention at the time. Eventually in 1941 she committed suicide by putting rocks in her pockets and drowning herself in a river, at the age
The Midland Group The Midland Group The Midland Group was an organisation that presented new art in Nottingham and the East Midlands between 1943 and 1987. The Midland Group of Artists was established in Nottingham in 1943. Its first gallery occupied one room, at 38 Bridlesmith Gate. After several moves the group settled at 11 East Circus Street from 1961-1977. Throughout the sixties, it provided ‘a forum for progressive and experimental visual arts in Nottingham'. In 1976 the group was re-formed as the Midland Art and Community Centre Ltd, although it continued to be popularly known as the Midland Group. With the aid