Editing Bloomsbury Group (section)

=== Members ===
The group had ten core members:<ref name="Avery p. 33" />
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* [[Clive Bell]], art critic
* [[Vanessa Bell]], post-impressionist painter
* [[E. M. Forster]], fiction writer
* [[Roger Fry]], art critic and post-impressionist painter
* [[Duncan Grant]], post-impressionist painter
* [[John Maynard Keynes]], economist
* [[Desmond MacCarthy]], literary journalist
* [[Lytton Strachey]], biographer
* [[Leonard Woolf]], essayist and non-fiction writer
* [[Virginia Woolf]], fiction writer and essayist
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In addition to these ten, [[Leonard Woolf]], in the 1960s, listed as "Old Bloomsbury" [[Adrian Stephen|Adrian]] and [[Karin Stephen]], [[Saxon Sydney-Turner]], and [[Mary (Molly) MacCarthy|Molly MacCarthy]], with [[Julian Bell]], [[Quentin Bell]] and [[Angelica Garnett|Angelica Bell]], and [[David Garnett]]<ref>Knights, S., 2015</ref> as "later additions".<ref name="Lee p. 263">Lee, p. 263</ref> Except for Forster, who published three novels before the highly successful ''Howards End'' in 1910, the group were late developers.<ref name="Gadd, p. 103-7">Gadd, p. 103-7</ref>

There were stable marriages and varied and complicated affairs among the individual members.<ref name="Kuper p. 241" /> Lytton Strachey{{refn||group="nb"|name="Duke Library"}} and his cousin and lover [[Duncan Grant]]<ref>Kuger, p. 231–232</ref> became close friends of the Stephen sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Duncan Grant had affairs with siblings Vanessa Bell and Adrian Stephen, as well as David Garnett, Maynard Keynes, and James Strachey. Clive Bell married Vanessa in 1907, and Leonard Woolf returned from the [[Ceylon Civil Service]] to marry Virginia in 1912. Cambridge Apostle friendships brought into the group Desmond MacCarthy, his wife Molly, and E. M. Forster.<ref name="Gadd p. 20" />
[[File:Charleston Farmhouse, view from the pond.jpg|thumb|[[Charleston Farmhouse]], where Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved in 1916]]

The group met not only in their homes in Bloomsbury, [[central London]], but also at countryside retreats. There are two significant ones near [[Lewes]] in Sussex: [[Charleston Farmhouse]],{{refn|See [http://www.charleston.org.uk/ Charleston House], A Bloomsbury Home and Garden.|group="nb"}} where Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved in 1916, and [[Monk's House]] (now owned by the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]),{{refn|Monk's House Photograph albums at Houghton Library, Harvard University: [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4458847 1863-1938], [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4394409 1909-1922.], [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4394410 1890-1933], [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4395032 1890-1947], [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4395033 1892-1938] and [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4420078 1850-1900].|group="nb"}} in [[Rodmell]], owned by Virginia and Leonard Woolf from 1919.<ref>Rosenbaum, pp. 208, 430–431, 437</ref>