Plaque

Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square

Inscription

Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th century there lived several members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell and the Stracheys.
Erected by Camden London Borough Council

Site: Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square (1 memorial)

WC1, Gordon Square, 50

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Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square

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Bloomsbury Group

An influential group of artists and writers who were friends during the first...

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Arthur Clive Heward Bell

Known professionally as Clive Bell, he was an art critic and writer who marri...

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Giles Lytton Strachey

Critic and biographer known professionally as Lytton Strachey.  At Cambridge ...

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Virginia Woolf

Born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in Hyde Park Gate, London. Drowned herself i...

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Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square

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Camden Council

The Town Hall in Euston Road once housed these interesting murals by Cecil Os...

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