- unitid
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{"value"=>"186411", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS 186411", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b23421797", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1898-1950", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1898/1950"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Bloomsbury Group correspondence"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.21 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Bloomsbury Group was an informal group of early twentieth-century English writers, artists, critics, and intellectuals. This collection, dated 1898 to 1950, consists of a selection of letters and invitations written by or to persons associated with this group. The most frequent correspondent is Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), the writer and lover of Bloomsbury group member Virginia Woolf, and the majority of the collection is made up of letters written in the immediate aftermath of Woolf's suicide."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Bloomsbury group was an informal collective of English writers, artists, critics, and intellectuals active at the beginning of the twentieth-century, most of whom lived or worked in the London district of Bloomsbury. The group is usually considered to consist of ten core members: writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and her husband, the writer and publisher Leonard Woolf (1880-1969); Virginia Woolf's sister, the artist Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) and her husband, the art critic Clive Bell (1881-1964); writer E.M. Forster (1879-1970); the critic and artist Roger Fry (1866-1934); the artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978); the economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946); the writer and critic Lytton Strachey (1880-1932); and the writer and critic Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952). In addition to these, there were a number of figures who joined the group later, or despite being associated with and close to its members, were not considered a core part of the collective. Clive and Vanessa Bell's three children, Julian (1908-1937), Quentin (1910-1996), and Angelica (1918-2012), and Angelica's husband, David Garnett (1892-1981), are examples of the former, while Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), the writer and lover of Virginia Woolf, is an example of the latter.</p> <p>The members of the collective were all part of the English upper middle-class. All of the male members (with the exception of Duncan Grant) were educated at Cambridge University, at either Trinity or King's College, and most were members of the secret society, The Cambridge Apostles (also known as the Conversazione Society). At Trinity College, several of the members became good friends with Thoby Stephen, the brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and from there the informal group began to form. The friendships and social connections between the group largely pre-dated their fame as writers and artists, as most of them, with the exception of Forster, did not find success until later in life.</p> <p>The group had no formal membership requirements, and were united by an overwhelming belief in the importance of the arts, intellectual life, and liberal politics. They were noted for sharing progressive attitudes towards feminism, sexuality, and pacifism. The personal relations between the group were complex, with intermarriage, open relationships, and affairs being common.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Bloomsbury Group correspondence collection, dated 1898 to 1950, consists of a selection of letters and invitations written by or to persons associated with the group. Despite not being a core member of the group, Vita Sackville-West is by far the most represented figure. The collection consists of twenty total items of correspondence, and she is either the writer or recipient of fifteen of them. Of these fifteen letters, eight of them were written in April 1941. Virginia Woolf committed suicide by drowning on March 28, 1941 and her body was not found until April 18th. These letters deal with Woolf's disappearance and the eventual confirmation of her death.</p> <p>In addition to this correspondence, the collection also holds a letter from Virginia Woolf's father that pre-dates the founding of the group, an invitation to dine with the Cambridge Conversazione, a contract signed by Leonard Woolf, and correspondence either to or from Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey, and Duncan Grant.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Chronological order.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from <span class=\"name\">Glenn Horowitz</span> in <span class=\"date\">2021</span>.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Stacey Ference</span> in <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- date_start
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1898
- keydate
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1898
- date_end
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1950
- date_inclusive_start
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1898
- date_inclusive_end
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1950
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Bloomsbury Group correspondence, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library"}