Bloomsbury | Vorticism | Bohemians | The Hampstead Set | Ottoline | The Sitwells | Others
Bloomsbury | Vorticism | Bohemians | The Hampstead Set | Ottoline | The Sitwells | Others
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Bloomsbury
Clive
Bell (Art critic; married to Vanessa Bell, father of
Julia and Quentin; wrote: Art, Since Cezanne,
Civilization,)
Vanessa Bell (Painter;
sister to Virginia Woolf, married to Clive Bell, affair with Roger Fry,
lifetime companion of Duncan Grant ; lived at Gordon Sq in London and
Carleston in Sussex)
E.M.
(Morgan) Forester (Novelist, Cambridge Apostle; close friend of Leonard; Wrote: Room
with a View, Howard's End, A Passage to India)
Roger Fry (Art Critic, lover of Vanessa
Bell, longtime freind of Clive, longtime companion of Helen Anrep; Cambridge
Apostle; wrote: Vision and Design, Transformations, Cezanne
)
Duncan Grant (Painter; lover of Maynard Keynes,
Bunny Garnett, Vanessa Bell; father of
Angelica)
Lytton Strachey (Writer;
cousin of Duncan Grant, lifetme companion of Dora Carrington; Cambridge
Apostle;wrote: Eminent Victorians,)
Leonard
Woolf (Writer and Editor; husband of
Virginia Woolf and co-founder of the Hogarth Press; Cambridge Apostle; wrote:
The Villiage in the Jungle, Barbarains at the Gates, Autobiogrpahy (5
vols)
The Hogarth Press (Founded by Leonard and Virgnia
in 1917; published T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia and Leonard's
works, also Sigmund Frued, many Russsians, much of best in Modernist
lit)
The
Omega Workshop (Founded by Roger Fry in 1913 as a way for
artists to make money by creating objects to sell, including painted
furniture, fabric, rugs, clothing, and entire room
decorations) Vorticists
Vorticism
Wyndham Lewis (Painter, writer; founder of Vorticism,
sometime friend of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot; very quarrelsome: the Pat Buchanan
of British Modernsim) Bohemia
The Hampstead
Set
Katherine
Mansfield (New Zealand born writer; married to John
Middleton Murray; friends with Virginia Woolf)
John Middleton Murray
D. H. Lawrence Lady Ottoline
Morrell/ Garsington
Ottoline
and Garsington (Ottoline Morrell hosted a series of
literary salons, first in London, then at her country home outside of Oxford;
husband Philip was an MP; guests included everyone from Yeats, Pound,
and Eliot to Dora Carrington and Mark Gertler, to all of Bloomsbury, to D.H.
Lawrence and Aldous Huxley -- who both caricatured her cruely in
novels)
Bertrand Russell (Philosopher,
mathematician, pacifist; long affair with Ottoline; friends with DH Lawrence;
friend and mentor to T.S. ELiot and lover of his first
wife) The Sitwells
Edith Sitwell(Deeply eccentric poet, supporter of Modernism,called by one web site
"shock-trooper of the poetic avant garde" patron of T.S. Eliot, Russian
Ballet; frequently painted)and photographed)
Osbert Sitwell
Others
Raymond Mortimer (Literary
critic, writer and editor; friend of Clive Bell, Francis Birrell, Harold
Niclson; wrote for The Dial, edited New Statesman and
Nation)
Vita Sackville-West (Aristocrat, writer,
gardener; open marriage to Harold Nicholson; affairs with many women,
including Virginia Woolf; wrote many best-sellers and prize-wining poetry;
designed Sissinghurst)
Literary Magazines (The Egoist, The Criterion, The
Dial)
Other Magazines (Brtish Vogue, Nation and
Atheneum, )
The Russian Ballet
The Fabians