Editing Bloomsbury Group (section)

===Rejection of bourgeois habits===
[[File:Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 1912.jpg|thumb|[[Virginia Woolf]] and her husband [[Leonard Woolf]] in 1912]]
Bloomsbury reacted against current upper class English social rituals, "the [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] habits&nbsp;... the conventions of Victorian life"<ref>Lee, p. 54</ref> with their emphasis on public achievement, in favour of a more informal and private focus on [[personal relationship]]s and individual pleasure. E. M. Forster for example approved of "the decay of smartness and fashion as factors, and the growth of the idea of enjoyment",<ref>Forster, p. 111</ref> and asserted that "if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country".<ref>Forster, p. 76</ref>

The Group "believed in pleasure&nbsp;... They tried to get the maximum of pleasure out of their personal relations. If this meant [[Love triangle|triangles]] or more complicated geometric figures, well then, one accepted that too".<ref>Snow, p. 84</ref> Yet at the same time, they shared a sophisticated, civilized, and highly articulated ideal of pleasure. As Virginia Woolf put it, their "triumph is in having worked out a view of life which was not by any means corrupt or sinister or merely intellectual; rather ascetic and austere indeed; which still holds, and keeps them dining together, and staying together, after 20 years".<ref>Quoted in Lee, p. 268</ref>