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
Socialist Vanguard Group Socialist Vanguard Group The Socialist Vanguard Group was a political group active in the United Kingdom, in various guises, from the 1920s to the 1950s. While always a small organisation, its journal and some of its members became highly influential in the right wing of the Labour Party. The group originated in the late 1920s, as a small group of British sympathisers of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK), which followed the ideas of Leonard Nelson. Nelson argued for an ethical socialism which opposed democracy and religion and supported animal rights and trade unionism. Gerhard Kunleben of the ISK travelled to