ABSTRACT
The Bloomsbury Group was a collection of friends who enjoyed each other’s company and conversation and interacted and collaborated in various ways over more than half a century. The core members were the artists Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Roger Fry, and Duncan Grant, the art critic Clive Bell, the theatre critic Desmond McCarthy, the novelists E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and David Garnett, the historian and biographer Lytton Strachey, the political theorist Leonard Woolf, and the economist John Maynard Keynes. Despite their frequent disclaimers to the contrary, it does seem possible to discern a coherent “Bloomsbury view” on many important subjects, including the relations of esthetics to economics.
