from Part III - Intimate Bloomsbury
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2025
This chapter focuses on both the publication and reception histories of the private writings of Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, and E. M. Forster, among others, and explores the appeal of such works for scholars and Bloomsbury enthusiasts. Scholars have regularly mined these private writings for biographical information and for insights into their authors’ creative processes, while readers also experience the vicarious sense of being inside Bloomsbury lives, loves, and homes. This chapter provides a decade-by-decade survey of Bloomsbury life writing, highlighting the major publications and situating them within the larger context of the revival of interest in the Bloomsbury group from the 1950s onward.
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