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
Virginia Woolf of the South Downs. Leonard Woolf describes this view (and the amenities) as being unchanged since the days of Chaucer. From 1940 it became their permanent home after their London home was bombed, and Virginia continued to live there until her death. Meanwhile, Vanessa had also made Charleston her permanent home in 1936. It was at Monk's House that she completed "Between the Acts" in early 1941, followed by a further breakdown, resulting in her death on March 28, 1941, the novel being published posthumously later that year. During her time in Firle, Virginia became better acquainted with Rupert Brooke