When I looked through the donations on Virginia Woolf, the name Bloomsbury kept popping up. What was this "Bloomsbury"? To say it was a place near London in the early 1900s where a group of eccentric authors and painters gathered to talk would be true, but only a tiny piece of the answer. I have done a bit more reading in order to write this blog, but find the answer to the question grows more distant the more I read.
Bloomsbury: A House of Lions, by Leon Edel (HC, 1979,$3)
Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925, edited by Perry Meisel (HC, 1985, $3)
James and Alix were in love, and amazingly to each other! They were both members of the Bloomsbury group, but they were also being analyzed by Freud. Here artistic radicals mix with scientific radicals. Oh, my.
These books will be avail. 10/19 in the classics' section, with the Virginia Woolf material, even though Virginia thought poorly of Freud.(Poor Freud.)
