And they drank coffee. And they found jar after jar of fish paste, which had clearly been a staple of their diet. No doubt for all those tea parties. One of the interesting critical tactics has been to attempt to recuperate a favorite subject by suggesting that he or she wasn't really part of Bloomsbury. You couldn't possibly fight the overwhelming opposition to the idea of Bloomsbury.
Opposition feels good, and so people cling to their oppositions fiercely.
In these few words, Boland felt that Woolf was disenfranchising working class women, and she couldn't forgive her for it. For a long time, of course, E. M. Forster was considered the only character in Bloomsbury worth saving. And the same thing happened with John Maynard Keynes. Critics think they're being exceptionally clever when they use this tactic of denying the Bloomsbury connection. They haven't read the wider literature and don't know how many other writers have done the same thing.