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
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
When it began, however, it was friends and it was talk. Talk, VW
wrote in Old Bloomsbury (which she read as a paper to the Memoir Club
near the end of 1921 or in...
Friends, Associates
Julia Strachey
In December 1953 JS
was elected to the Memoir Club
, a group which, begun by Molly MacCarthy
and the Bloomsbury Group in 1920, continued until the mid-1960s. Its members gathered to present autobiographical papers...
Publishing
Julia Strachey
This story was first presented by JS
to the Memoir Club
as Animalia.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983.
263
Frances Partridge
reports that the New Yorker's literary editor was especially pleased with Strachey's submission: after reading her Cheerful...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
read a paper about her early memories, probably 22 Hyde Park Gate, to the Memoir Club
.
This essay was posthumously published in Moments of Being (1976; rev. 1985).
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
2: 77n1
Violence
Virginia Woolf
VW
described the incidents much later in 22 Hyde Park Gate, 1921, and Old Bloomsbury, 1922, both talks prepared for her friends in the Memoir Club
. She also wrote about them to Vanessa.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.