Who’s Afraid of the Bloomsbury Group?

I am giving a talk at the Presteigne Festival on Thursday 21 August entitled “Who’s Afraid of the Bloomsbury Group?” marking the centenary of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. I believe there are some tickets left.

Here is a short list of the books I referred to in the talk. I may post the talk, or a variant of it, on my Substack account, Free Range Writing which you might like to look at: https://nicholasmurray.substack.com/p/the-comforting-read

Some Sources Cited in My Talk on the Bloomsbury Group, Presteigne Festival 21 August 2025

Sherwood, Jennifer and Pevsner, Nikolaus (eds) The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire (1999 ed)

Annan, Noel. ‘The Intellectual Aristocracy.’ In Studies in Social History, edited by J.H. Plumb, pp. 

241-287. Longmans, Green, London, 1955". The phrase ‘the intellectual aristocracy’ also appears on p1 of his Leslie Stephen: his thought and character in relation to his time (1951) 

Grover Smith (ed) The Letters of Aldous Huxley (1969)

Glendinning, Vita, The Life of V Sackville West (1983) 

The Bloomsbury Group, The Spoken Word (2009) British Library NSACD 58-59 

Marler, Regina Bloomsbury Pie: the story of the Bloomsbury Revival (1997) 

DH Lawrence, ‘Autobiographical Sketch’ in Phoenix II Heinemann 1968 

Woolf, Leonard An Autobiography 2: 1911-1969 (1980)

Bell, Vanessa, ‘Notes on Bloomsbury’, in Sketches in Pen and Ink (1997)

Woolf, Virginia, ‘Old Bloomsbury’ in 

Moments of Being: unpublished autobiographical writings  (1976) 

Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf (1996)

Briggs, Julia Virginia Woolf: an inner life (2005)

Selvon, Sam, The Lonely Londoners (1956) 

Murray, Nicholas, Bloomsbury and the Poets (2014) 

Fitzgerald, Penelope, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (1984) 

Copus, Julia, This Rare Spirit: a life of Charlotte Mew (2021)