Young Bloomsbury Audiobook Libro.fm

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Surprisingly little has been written about secondgeneration Bloomsbury who tantalised the original Bloomsburies at Gordon Square parties with their captivating looks and provocative ideas

Young Bloomsbury introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters including novelist and music critic Eddy SackvilleWest who wore elaborate makeup and dressed in satin and black velvet sculptor Stephen Tomlin and writer Julia Strachey Talented and productive these largerthanlife figures had highachieving professional lives and extremely complicated emotional lives

Bloomsbury had always celebrated sexual equality and freedom in private but by the 1920s selfexpression was becoming more public with crossdressing Young Bloomsbury giving Old Bloomsbury a new voice in a chosen family of a shared rebellion against prewar conventions

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