Virginia Woolf Thursday evening "At Homes" that became known as the "Thursday Club", a vision of recreating Trinity College ("Cambridge in London"). This circle formed the nucleus of the intellectual circle of writers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. Later it would include John Maynard Keynes (1907), Duncan Grant (1908), E. M. Forster (1910), Roger Fry (1910), Leonard Woolf (1911) and David Garnett (1914). In 1905 Virginia and Adrian visited Portugal and Spain, Clive Bell proposed to Vanessa, but was declined, while Virginia began teaching evening classes at Morley College and Vanessa added another event to their calendar with the "Friday
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