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Article: BRITISH LITERARY SOCIETY IS RECALLED IN `BLOOMSBURY'.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- April 23, 1996
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Byline: JOCELYN MC CLURG
Bloomsbury addicts (I confess to having several shelf-fuls of books on the subject) can never get enough. And ``Bloomsbury Recalled,'' by Quentin Bell, is the ultimate inside-Bloomsbury book.
If you don't know Bloomsbury from Canterbury, there's no need to crack open ``Bloomsbury Recalled,'' because you'll be lost in Bloomsbury without a road map. Bell assumes his reader is already on intimate terms with the loose assemblage of British writers, artists and intellectuals known as ``Bloomsbury'': Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster and ...