Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the short prose works of the Group's novelists, biographers, critics, and even political economists. In
A Bloomsbury Group Reader
Professor Rosenbaum offers a representative selection of such writings by Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and Vanessa Bell. His focus in this selection is not upon the lives of the Group but upon what finally must justify our interest in them: their work, in this instance, as writers.
Part I: Forewords:.
Virginia Woolf: The Common Reader.
Lytton Strachey: Preface to Eminent Victorians.
Roger Fry: Introduction to A Sampler of Castille.
E. M. Forster: Introduction to Collected Short Stories.
Part II: Stories:.
E. M. Forster: The Point of It.
Leonard Woolf: Pearls and Swine.
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street.
Part III: Biographies:.
E. M. Forster: The Emperor Babur.
Lytton Strachey: Madame de Sevigne's Cousin.
Desmond MacCarthy: Disraeli.
Virginia Woolf: Julia Margaret Cameron.
Leonard Woolf: Herbert Spencer.
John Maynard Keynes: Mr. Lloyd George.
Part IV: Essays:.
Lytton Strachey: A Victorian Critic.
Desmond MacCarthy: The Post- Impressionists.
Roger Fry: Art and Socialism.
Clive Bell: The Artistic Problem.
Leonard Woolf: Fear and Politics.
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