Title: Bloomsbury : a house of lions /
Authors: Edel, Leon, 1907-1997.
Publisher: Lippincott,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Bloomsbury group.; London (England) Intellectual life.; London (England) Biography.; Bloomsbury (London, England) Intellectual life; Bloomsbury (London, England) Biography.
Abstract: Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsburies": economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, critics Clive Bell and Desmond MacCarthy, and painters Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry.
Contents: I. -- Thoroughly -- The hunter's eye -- Caliban in different voices -- Very serious young men -- Hands -- A first-class carriage -- Thoby's room -- II. -- A haunted house -- The sanity of art -- The other face -- 46 Gordon Square -- Clive in Paris -- Leonard in Ceylon -- Lytton in Cambridge -- Bloomsbury: first phase -- Thoby -- III. -- Resurrections -- The education of Duncan Grant -- Phase two: Fitzroy Square -- Vision and design -- A journey to Byzantium -- Bloomsbury: the third phase -- Pericles and Aspasia -- IV. -- A crystal moment -- Between the acts -- The war -- Desmond in France -- Love among the artists -- Eminence of Lytton -- Maynard at Versaille -- House of Lions -- The memoir club -- A Bloomsbury chronology 1885-1920.