Facts about The Bloomsbury Group

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   Economist John Maynard Keynes used his Bloomsbury Group connections and cultural interests to help establish the Arts Council of Great Britain.

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   Roger Fry, a key member of the Bloomsbury Group, organised the landmark 1910 exhibition that introduced Post-Impressionism to British audiences.

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   Painter Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf, was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and helped shape its visual arts dimension.

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   Centered in the London district of Bloomsbury, the group met informally from around 1905 and profoundly influenced early twentieth-century British modernism.

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   Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, and Lytton Strachey were all central members of the Bloomsbury Group.

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