Bell, Clive; Bell, Vanessa; Grant, Duncan, c. 1869-1963

In 1905 Vanessa and several friends and relatives began meeting to discuss literary and artistic issues. The friends, who eventually became known as the Bloomsbury Group, included Vanessa's sister, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, David Garnett, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant.

Vanessa married Clive Bell in 1907 but later left him to live with Duncan Grant.

Source : Spartacus Educational website www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JbellV.htm, accessed February 18, 2004.

From the guide to the The Charleston Papers, c. 1869-c. 1963, (King's College Archive Centre, Cambridge)