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
Chelsea, London lived in Church Lane, Richard Steele and Tobias Smollett in Monmouth House. Carlyle lived for 47 years at No. 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row. After his death, the house was bought and turned into a shrine and literary museum by the Carlyle Memorial Trust, a group formed by Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf set her 1919 novel "Night and Day" in Chelsea, where Mrs. Hilbery has a Cheyne Walk home. In a book, "Bohemia in London" by Arthur Ransome which is a partly fictional account of his early years in London, published in 1907 when he was