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The Bloomsbury Group was a group of artists, writers and intellectuals who, from 1904, met in the Bloomsbury home of Virgina Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell. The house on 46 Gordon Square became an intellectual and artistic centre, attracting Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Leonard Woolf and John Maynard Keynes. The name 'Bloomsbury' was first used in 1912 when Bell, Grant and others exhibited at the 'Post-Impressionist Exhibition' organised by Fry.
Staunch champions of modernism, the group is often associated with bohemianism and privilege.
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