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Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

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I’m glad Strachey opted to share the information and stories - especially to show that members of the LGBTQIA+ community have always existed and fought for a place to exist in this world. But this book seemed jumbled, repetitive and superficial, with no real sense of the personalities or the milieux in which they existed.

For each rising generation there’s reason to illuminate again their particular, if fleeting, triumphs. After studying at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute, Nino worked as a curator for the National Trust and English Heritage. I had thought it would also be about the group referred to as the Bright Young Things- The Mitfords and Evelyn Waugh , for example. I liked the occasional mentions of wealthy queer Americans of this era, such as Henrietta Bingham and her girlfriend Mina Kerstein, who hung out in Bloomsbury and had some juicy affairs in the 20s.Young men and women fascinated by the promise of freedom of expression and, above all, a space in which they could explore and celebrate queer identities. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

She also does a decent job of highlighting the difficult negotiations between sexual exploration and life in a wider, hostile environment in which any overt signs of queer expression were often rigidly policed and punished.I had some familiarity with the Bloomsbury group (Virginia Woolf, Cecil Beaton, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh etc. Essentially this is a group who, despite their blatant privileges and lust for the finer things in life, ultimately chose to campaign for a fairer future, and liberation for all - even at the disinclination of their family and many peers.

For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. And my first introduction to the Bloomsbury Group, though I've heard of and read some of the individuals. Nino Strachey's strength as a biographer is to draw sensitive and non-judgemental portraits of people whose private agonies seemed at odds with their outwardly confident appearance.

Strachey is obviously a descendent of Lytton and her knowledge of family bric-a-brac is extensive so that alone makes it worthwhile. For those who are quite familiar with the Bloomsbury group and their output of work, Young Bloomsbury will be a lethargic reading experience. Though there are times when the book points out that the upper classes were able to get away with more than the average person, it’s not all that critical of those situations. The idea behind this title being that the emphasis will not be on Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, etc.

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