Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

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As a straight forward history of the characters that can be said to make up the Bloomsbury set, both young and old, this is a reasonably good book. For a book which is tracing a sort of counterculture, it feels remarkably staid where I wanted flamboyance and something a bit more exciting. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Young men and women fascinated by the promise of freedom of expression and, above all, a space in which they could explore and celebrate queer identities. Just when you might have wondered if there could possibly be room for a new and revealing study of a group of lives which have been so meticulously and extensively documented, Nino's exhilarating lens offers an entirely original and thrilling focus.

in Bloomsbury, as a new generation and movement of youth stepped in to invigorate the already established Bloomsbury Group. Young Bloomsbury explores the transgressive lives of the second generation of the Bloomsbury Group looks at the impact new ideals and ways of being had on original members of the group. The central core of this book is the relationship between the two Bloomsbury generations: the way the elders created a space for acceptance, self-expression, and queerness that allowed the young generation to flourish, and in turn, the younger generation provided novelty and creativity and, y’know, their nubile twenty-something bodies for bonking.What makes this book so unique and special is that the author is a descendant of one of the main members of the group and so tells us a compelling narrative that connects into present day and to their child. This lively group biography offers an intimate glimpse of the Bright Young Things, the artistic coterie that emerged in the nineteen-twenties as successors to the prewar Bloomsburyites. Great fun and, for all fans of the Bloomsbury Group, enormously informative - like being transported back to "dancing the night hours away underground in the pitch dark and smoke-filled avant-garde nightclubs of that day", you never know who you're going to meet. Please note: This review may not be reproduced or quoted, in whole or in part, without explicit consent from the author. If you can’t credit me with simply being a person who loves books and likes talking about them, at least credit me with enough common sense to be a better villain.

Sure, he was a member of the younger Bloomsbury set, but still, I couldn't understand why he was singled out. I want to sink myself into their literary output to understand the concepts they were grappling with.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. She also doesn't really sum up their overall impact on British culture, ie she gives the stories of the key players, but not their lasting impact.