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Bloomsbury is an intellectual and literary hub for London, as home of world-known Bloomsbury Publishing, publishers of the Harry Potter series, and namesake of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of British intellectuals which included author Virginia Woolf, biographer Lytton Strachey, and economist John Maynard Keynes.
The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. [1]
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. Bloomsbury's head office is located on Bedford Square [ 3 ] in Bloomsbury , an area of the London Borough of Camden .
The Bloomsbury Group plays a prominent role in the LGBT history of its day. While still in the Bloomsbury area, LGBT activity was all very much in a single group (e.g. Duncan Grant, a homosexual with bisexual leanings, [8] having affairs with Maynard Keynes, James Strachey, Adrian Stephen, David Garnett and straight Vanessa Bell). Names of LGBT ...
Bloomsbury Classics are a series of small-format hardback novels published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the UK, not to be confused with a similarly named series of ...
Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism.
Bloomsbury (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1839 Epsom Derby; Bloomsbury, a 1905 novel by Charles Francis Keary; Bloomsbury Group, an English literary group active from around 1905; Bloomsbury Gang, a political grouping in 1765; Bloomsbury Publishing, British publisher; Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Newton began his career as assistant to the sales director at Macmillan. [2] [5] He later worked for Sidgwick and Jackson.[2]Newton conceived the idea of Bloomsbury in 1984 and the name of the company shortly thereafter; he first approached David Reynolds to join him in 1985 and later they brought on board Liz Calder and Alan Wherry.