The Bloomsbury Group and Modernity: The Intellectuals' Responses to Politics and Society

Historians have long noted the change in England's social and political life that occurred after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. The Bloomsbury Group began to coalesce during the early years of Edwardian England, responding to the shifts that were occurring.

Among these writers, artists, critics, political scientists, and economists a shared sensibility and common ethos drove the group to scrutinize middle-class values and authority and to champion the priorities of the individual in...