Virginia Woolf: The Most Influential Members Of The Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group consisted mainly of family, colleagues, and friends who shared ideas in writing and painting. "Bloomsbury" signified a group of people who were close in friendship as well as in talent. The Bloomsberries, who were known as the Bloomsbury Group, spent a tremendous amount of time together. Each individual attempted to contribute valuable ideas to one another’s individual works. Two of the most important aspects of the Bloomsberries were Literature and Art. All members of this circle of intellectuals were vastly incorporated with both of these aspects as well as a few others. The most well recognized writer of this group was Virginia Woolf.

"The Bloomsbury Group is a popular collective designation

One of the most known members, and most influential members of this circle was Virginia Woolf. Woolf, lived from 1882-1941. "Virginia Woolf was born in London and was educated at home by her parents and tutors" (www.helicon.co.uk). The years in which she lived was called modernism. Virginia Woolf suffered a very hard beginning of her lifetime. Both of her parents passed away by the time she was only twenty-two years of age. At the age of 22, Virginia started to live in a house in Bloomsbury. This is where Virginia Woolf started to flourish. At this home in Bloomsbury, England; Woolf became a member of a small group of friends who were called the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf is known for many different styles of writing. She was a great English novelist and critic. "In novels such as Mrs Dalloway (1925), To The Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931), she used a ‘stream of consciousness’ technique to render inner experience. In a Room of One’s Own (1929), (nonfiction), Orlando (1928), and The Years (1937), she examines the importance of economic independence for women and other feminist principles" (www.helicon.co.uk). Virginia Woolf’s most important love of her life was her own writing.

Literary Modernism is a very well known part of English Literature. Many novels, short stories, and poems contain this principle. Modernism is the philosophy and practices of modern art: a self-conscious and deliberate break with the past

They were very popular and well known for producing many great pieces of literature and art that was ever published throughout the many years that literature has been present. Each member of this closely attached group very often helped one another with their struggles and difficulties in finishing their literature, art, paintings, you name it. Virginia Woolf was probably the most known members of this circle. She, throughout her years went through many hardships and struggles as a child, but throughout all of that she achieved great accomplishments as her life went on. The Bloomsbury Group will always be remembered to many people that have a love for literature.

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