Before and after the Great War, a group of writers and artists gathered in salons in the Bloomsbury area of London. They talked about their projects, they debated the issues of the day, and they gossiped about their friends. We will look at the lives of the two women in the center of the group, Virginia Woolf and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, as well as the creative men they socialized with—Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes and others. In week one we will talk about their Victorian upbringing and how they came together as a group, up until World War I. In week two we will follow their progress in their careers and their personal lives through the 1920s up until World War II. A suggested reading and viewing list will be supplied, but no preparation is required.
((Kathleen Dixon Donnelly - Tuesday - Zoom))
