Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect
(to which VW
's great-grandfather James Stephen
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mid 1792-1815: These were the active years of the informal...
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mid 1792-1815
These were the active years of the informal evangelical Anglican group later called the Clapham Sect
(then known as the Saints
).