Bloomsbury Group
- proper noun
- Literature
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Grupo de Bloomsbury
Examples
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He was the only one of the Bloomsbury Group.
Blog text (6) -
She reads about the Bloomsbury Group.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Bloomsbury Group was known for its revolutionary ideas that transformed literature and art in early 20th century England.
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Virginia Woolf was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, influencing modernist literature with her innovative writing style.
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The philosophical discussions of the Bloomsbury Group often challenged societal norms and inspired later generations of artists.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally understandable as 'a group associated with Bloomsbury' if a learner knows 'Bloomsbury' (a London area) and 'group' (a collection of people). However, the specific cultural/historical sense—that it names a particular early-20th-century circle of writers, thinkers and artists—requires world knowledge beyond the constituents, so full meaning is not predictable from the words alone.
Etymology
The Bloomsbury Group is named after the Bloomsbury area of London, where a circle of writers, artists, and thinkers lived and met in the early 1900s. They often met in each other's homes to talk about art and ideas and behaved in ways that were not usual, so the name now refers to that particular group and their 'unconventional' influence on literature and art.
