Bloomsbury Group 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 a group in any formal sense, they were united by an abiding belief in the importance of the arts." Their works
Leonard Woolf Leonard's tracts and, among other works, the first edition of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Woolf continued as the main director of the Press until his death. His wife suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, until her suicide by drowning in 1941. Later Leonard fell in love with a married artist, Trekkie Parsons. In 1919, Woolf became editor of the "International Review". He also edited the international section of the "Contemporary Review" from 1920 to 1922. He was literary editor of "The Nation and Atheneum", generally referred to simply as "The Nation", from 1923 to 1930),