Bloomsbury Group Virginia and Leonard Woolf from 1919. Much about Bloomsbury appears to be controversial, including its membership and name: indeed, some would maintain that "the three words 'the Bloomsbury group' have been so much used as to have become almost unusable". Close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes’s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly "writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not 'Bloomsbury': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole". Another is Vita Sackville-West,
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf From the Diary of Virginia Woolf From the Diary of Virginia Woolf is an eight-part song cycle written by Dominick Argento in 1974 for the English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker. The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. The text of the songs comes from "A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf", which was published in 1954. (The five-volume diaries edited by Anne Olivier Bell were not published until 1979.) The choice of a prose, rather than poetic, source for a text is a common theme for Argento, who did the same thing in his