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Young Bloomsbury

The Generation That Reimagined Love, Freedom and Self-Expression

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Young Bloomsbury

By: Nino Strachey
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Surprisingly little has been written about second-generation 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 Sackville-West, 'who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black velvet', sculptor Stephen Tomlin and writer Julia Strachey. Talented and productive, these larger-than-life figures had high-achieving professional lives and extremely complicated emotional lives.

Bloomsbury had always celebrated sexual equality and freedom in private, but by the 1920s, self-expression was becoming more public, with cross-dressing Young Bloomsbury giving Old Bloomsbury a new voice in a chosen family of a shared rebellion against pre-war conventions.

©2022 Nino Strachey (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited 20th Century Authors Biographies & Memoirs
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Appalling narration

Mildly interesting account of the relationships between 'old' and 'new' Bloomsbury. However this book was ruined for me by the narration. This is a prime example of why authors shouldn't narrate their own works if they don't have the skills. There were so many mangled and fumbled words. It was as if the narrator was breaking in a new set of false teeth. Why the producer of this didn't pick up on it I have no idea.

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