Bloomsbury Group in LGBT history Monk's House, she would meet Vita Sackville-West, writing her Roman à clef about her. Woolf also met the LGBT people around her, including Harold Nicolson, Sackville-West's husband, Benedict Nicolson, their LGBT son and Violet Trefusis, her former lover. Composer and suffragist Ethel Smyth was another later acquaintance of Virginia Woolf. Bloomsbury Group in LGBT history The Bloomsbury Group plays a prominent role in the LGBT history of its day. While still in the Bloomsbury area LGBT activity was all very much in a single group. For example, Duncan Grant, a homosexual with bisexual leanings, had affairs with Maynard Keynes, James
Bloomsbury Group core members: In addition to these ten, Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as 'Old Bloomsbury' Adrian and Karin Stephen, Saxon Sydney-Turner, and Molly MacCarthy, with Julian Bell, Quentin Bell and Angelica Bell, and David Garnett as later additions". Except for Forster, who published three novels before the highly successful "Howards End" in 1910, the group were late developers. There were stable marriages and varied and complicated affairs among the individual members. Lytton Strachey and his cousin and lover Duncan Grant became close friends of the Stephen sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Duncan Grant had affairs with siblings Vanessa