THE LOVING FRIENDS: A PORTRAIT OF BLOOMSBURY by David Gadd

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York: 1974. Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Near Fine Jacket with one small chip missing from bottom of rear cover. Tops & tails of boards show some light fading, else in Fine condition. A fresh, bright copy. 214 pages with 13 b/w photographs of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, etc. Cover by Milton Glaser. David Gadd sorts out the legends about the Bloomsbury Group--who they were, what they believed in, what influences they had on art and literature, and what became of them. The group was brought together by friendship and mutual understanding rather than a common outlook. They also shared the tendency to apply reason to every aspect of life. If they thought the rules were stupid, they broke them. It is this practice that earned them the reputation of being immoral. Gadd documents the temperment and genius of thje individual personalities, their complex relationships, and their affairs.