he Bloomsbury group was named after an area of London defined by its polite yellow-brick Georgian squares and academic institutions. Out of a house in one of these squares, a group of intellectuals, artists, and writers comprised of friends and family regularly gathered to discuss, debate, and challenge the social norms and ideas of the day. Key members included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, and Vanessa Bell, among others. It was their close friendships and alternative relationships solidified in
