Bloomsbury Group / Bloomsberries

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.