8. The Bloomsbury Group, Gordon Square, Bloomsbury

A far cry from tradition, the living arrangements at 46 Gordon Square were a radical departure from the multi-generation traditions of Edwardian England - and a real shock to many.  A house in which only young people lived, it was originally home to Virgina Stephen (Woolf), Venessa Stephen (Bell) and their brothers Thoby and Adrian. It became the first meeting place for what would later become known as The Bloomsbury Group and on Thursday evenings, its dressed-down members would sit, smoke, drink whiskey and converse. The group expanded to include Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, David Garnett, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry and Saxon Sidney-Turner. Although many of them eventually married, most openly explored their sexuality and they were well known to have unconventional sex, largely  because they led unconventional lives. Dorothy Parker remarked that they; “Lived in squares and loved in triangles”.

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