Table of Contents

Bloomsbury Lives; Major Works of Virginia Woolf; Preface: Bloomsbury - Why, What and Who?; 1. Virginia Stephen at Home; 2. Beginnings of Bloomsbury; Capsule: The Intellectual Scene; 3. The Colonialist and the Novelist; The Voyage Out (1915); 4. The Hogarth Press; Night and Day (1919); 5. Small But Perfectly Formed: Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction; 6. Friend and Rival: Lytton Strachey; Eminent Victorians (1918); 7. Bloomsbury Biography: The Memoir Club; Jacob's Room (1922); 8. Bloomsbury Art: Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell and Duncan Grant; 9. The Significant Roger Fry; Mrs Dalloway (1925); 10. Stuck on Q: Saxon Sydney-Turner and Desmond McCarthy; To the Lighthouse (1927); 11. Bloomsbury Economist: John Maynard Keynes and Money; Capsule: Bloomsbury and Money; 12. On the Fringes; Capsule: Bloomsbury and Music; 13. Virginia Woolf's Non-fiction; Capsule: Woolfs and other animals; 14. Adventures and Escapades; Capsule: Bloomsbury Escapades; Orlando (1928); 15. Feminism and War; A Room of One's Own (1929); Capsule: Bloomsbury and the First World War; 16. Bloomsbury Houses: Upstairs, Downstairs; Capsule: Bloomsbury Servants; 17. Bloomsbury in the 1930s; The Waves (1931); Capsule: Bloomsbury and the Second World War; 18. What Other People Thought of the Bloomsberries; The Years (1937); 19. Virginia Woolf, Mental Illness and Death; Between the Acts (1941); 21. Bloomsbury in Popular Culture; 22. Bloomsbury Today.

About the Author

Sarah M. Hall is a writer and editor. She is on the Executive Council and the Editorial Committee of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and is a regular contributor to the Virginia Woolf Bulletin. Her book Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf was published by Peter Owen in 2006.

Reviews

"A very well-presented survey of the extensive and talented Bloomsbury group, their backgrounds, their lives and what they all contributed to the Bloomsbury ethos and practice...If anyone wanted to know anything about any member of this group, one could not do better than use Sarah Hall's book as a reliable guide."
"Excellent summaries of the contents of Virginia Woolf's major writings, especially her novels which some people have found rather daunting. After reading these summaries some people might take courage to re-read the novels." - The Use of English