The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club

Shortly before his death, S. P. Rosenbaum began work on the history of the Bloomsbury Group's 'Memoir Club'. With original archival material and valuable insights on leading Bloomsbury figures such as Woolf, Keynes and Forster, this illuminating book offers a new perspective on our understanding of twentieth-century autobiography and life writing.

New work on the perennially popular 'Bloomsbury Group', based on unique, original archival research completed by S. P. Rosenbaum before his death in May 2012. Rosenbaum and Haule are both internationally recognized for their work on these writers and the Bloomsbury Group Features discussion of leading figures in a range of areas: canonical novelists (Woolf, E.M. Forster), political and economic thinkers (Keynes, Leonard Woolf), the visual arts (Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant) and biography and life-writing (Lytton Strachey) A significant publication for readers interested in not only the history of the Bloomsbury Group, but also the study of twentieth-century autobiography and memoir writing

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S. P. Rosenbaum was Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Toronto, Canada, until his death in 2012. He was a leading scholar of Woolf and the literary history of the Bloomsbury Group, and his many publications include three volumes tracing the literary history of Old Bloomsbury from the 1880s to 1914: Victorian Bloomsbury (1987), Edwardian Bloomsbury (1995) and Georgian Bloomsbury (2003). He also collected Woolf's published and unpublished memoirs in The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends (2008)

James M. Haule is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Texas Pan American, USA. He is a distinguished scholar and author and was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf and edited its edition of The Waves. Previous publications also include Editing Virginia Woolf: Interpreting the Modernist Text (with J. H. Stape, 2002).

Inhalt
Introduction; James M. Haule 1. Outlines 2. Ancestral Voices, Cambridge Conversations 3. Beginnings 4. Private and Public Affairs: 1921-1922 5. Hiatus: 1922-1928 6. Old Bloomsbury Afterword; James M. Haule Appendix i. Virginia Woolf Among the Apostles Appendix ii. A List of Memoir Club Papers; S.P. Rosenbaum and James M. Haule