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Bloomsbury

(blo̵̅o̅mz′bə rē, -brē; -ber′ē)

noun

a group of literary people and intellectuals residing in or associated with Bloomsbury in the early 20th cent., including Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes

adjective

of or associated with this group: the Bloomsbury set

district in central London, formerly an artistic and literary center

See Bloomsbury in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A residential district of north-central London, England, made famous by its association with an influential group of writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes, in the early 20th century.

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