The Bloomsbury Group was a loose association of writers, artists, philosophers and intellectuals that was a formative force in British cultural life in the first decades of the 20th century. Beginning in 1905, the group met at the home of artist Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) and her sister Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) in the Bloomsbury district of London to exchange ideas and support each other's creative activities. The members were united by a spirit of rebellion against what they perceived as unnecessary conventions and restrictions of their parents' generation and the desire for freedom to develop their own ideas and lifestyles.
John Northcote Nash R.A. 
