[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bloomsbury" (Designation of Group of Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Bloomsbury (OED 1914)

1910 Lytton Strachey Letter to Duncan Grant 4 Apr. in Mark Hussey Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism (2021) 75

The Bloomsbury set [are] all still there — quarreling I gather from morning till night in their lodging house.

NOTE:  This unpublished letter is in the Tate Gallery Archive.

Fred Shapiro

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