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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Clearly he’s being ironical—using the phrase “Bloomsbury set,” but not actually calling the group that himself. But the quote also underscores something I should’ve said, or should’ve said differently: the Bloomsberries really never accepted the label of “Bloomsbury,” “Bloomsbury Group,” or “Bloomsbury Set” to describe themselves. Was it Leonard who said the label was created by journalists? And Quentin Bell spends most of his Intro to <i>Bloomsbury</i> distancing those I/we would call the Bloomsberries from the label “Bloomsbury” at the same time that he works to characterize the Group qua group.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Brenda Helt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Co-editor <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury-13031.html">https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury-13031.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mark Hussey [mailto:mhussey@verizon.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Shapiro, Fred'; 'Jane Marie Garrity'; 'Brenda S. Helt'<br><b>Cc:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu; 'Laura Zander'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Vwoolf] History of the phrase "Bloomsbury Set"?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wonderful ref—JMK’s ‘so-called’ is telling, I think.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Vwoolf [<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.osu.edu">mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.osu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Shapiro, Fred<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 11, 2017 9:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jane Marie Garrity; Brenda S. Helt<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>; Laura Zander<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] History of the phrase "Bloomsbury Set"?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span class=noindent><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'>1914 </span></span><span class=smallcaps><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'>J. M. Keynes</span></span><span class=noindent><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'> </span></span><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'>Let.</span></em><span class=noindent><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'> 2 July in R. F. Harrod </span></span><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'>Life J. M. Keynes</span></em><span class=noindent><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'> (1951) iv. 171</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'> She..is asking no one but a few of my so-called ‘<span class=quotationkeyword>Bloomsbury set</span>’!</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333'>Fred Shapiro</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></span></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>> on behalf of Jane Marie Garrity <<a href="mailto:jane.garrity@colorado.edu">jane.garrity@colorado.edu</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 11, 2017 2:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> Brenda S. Helt<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>; Laura Zander<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] History of the phrase "Bloomsbury Set"?</span><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>This is a follow up to the lively conversation about the use of the phrase “Bloomsbury Set” in the article about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Does anyone know exactly who coined the epithet, “Bloomsbury Set,” and when? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I think rather than take umbrage at such contemporary references to Bloomsbury we might instead marvel at the fact that the group is being referred to at all! Here is another interesting reference—this one to the "silken Bloomsbury-set pajamas”—in an article titled “What Gucci Can Teach the Democrats" by the NYT chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2017_07_08_sunday-2Dreview_gucci-2Dfashion-2Dpolitics-2D.html&d=DwMGaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=fA3T4uAm2gJS6K8eux_g80UR5n-rtd2GpmRMO1hHScg&m=kho7NCGW_g5Jrd6FGNLyEcKwSUF6pnn5k2kqRF0oj0Y&s=j_gQEnmyFQPx5rbTLue4eOmfcvlHMxUOJrH9Cty9k6o&e=">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/sunday-review/gucci-fashion-politics-.html</a>. I do not believe that Friedman is using the phrase pejoratively, which suggests that its usage is much more complicated than earlier comments would allow. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>On a less controversial note (& just for fun), here is an article by Francesca Wade on the 50 Wedgwood plates illustrated with portraits of famous women from history by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in the current London Review of Books blog: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.lrb.co.uk_blog_2017_07_07_francesca-2Dwade_out-2Dof-2Dthe-2Dbloomsbury-2Dmud_&d=DwMGaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=fA3T4uAm2gJS6K8eux_g80UR5n-rtd2GpmRMO1hHScg&m=kho7NCGW_g5Jrd6FGNLyEcKwSUF6pnn5k2kqRF0oj0Y&s=YTYPUm01ZHm2KTiRTxwR612K2W9BZaCI7Ob033Q1_HI&e=">https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/07/07/francesca-wade/out-of-the-bloomsbury-mud/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>If you click on the image you can see approximately dead center that Grant has included a portrait of himself (it is to the right of the portrait of Vanessa Bell and diagonal to the portrait of Virginia Woolf) among this pantheon of famous women. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Happy summer everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Jane <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Jane Garrity<br>Associate Professor of English<br>Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>University of Colorado at Boulder<br>226 UCB<br>Boulder, CO 80309-0226<br><a href="mailto:Jane.Garrity@Colorado.Edu">Jane.Garrity@Colorado.Edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>On Jul 5, 2017, at 10:58 AM, Brenda S. Helt <<a href="mailto:helt0010@umn.edu">helt0010@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Well, first, nobody who knows much of anything about the Bloomsbury Group calls them the “Bloomsbury<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>Set</i>”—that’s a largely pejorative label devised in Britain by homophobic and conservative minded folks who decided the Bloomsberries represented everything they despised. It’s not always used pejoratively now, nor only in Britain, but it does still indicate a lack of knowledge of the Group. Ironically, Ms. Sanghvi’s claim that this tech think tank is Silicon Valley’s answer to the B’bury Group is exactly correct, though, as point by point that think tank represents the antithesis of everything the Group valued, achieved, and has come to represent for its admirers today.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Brenda Helt<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Co-editor<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>Queer Bloomsbury</i></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__edinburghuniversitypress.com_book-2Dqueer-2Dbloomsbury-2D13031.html&d=DwMGaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=fA3T4uAm2gJS6K8eux_g80UR5n-rtd2GpmRMO1hHScg&m=kho7NCGW_g5Jrd6FGNLyEcKwSUF6pnn5k2kqRF0oj0Y&s=ClWv_cu0pfTl1r8XEKYSgSq67hFWn7yxlexRUET8IZk&e="><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:purple'>https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury-13031.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Vwoolf [<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu"><span style='color:purple'>mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu</span></a>]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></b>Laura Zander<br><b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:39 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu"><span style='color:purple'>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</span></a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>[Vwoolf] Silicon Valley's Bloomsbury? Methinks not.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>"Ms. Sanghvi describes it as tech’s answer to the Bloomsbury Set.."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>This is about as far from Bloomsbury as you can get, with a bunch of men staring into screens as they dream up ways to make money, but sure... go ahead and use that reference point.<br><br><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2017_07_02_business_tech-2Dscene-2Dsouth-2Dpark-2Dcommons-2Dsan-2Dfrancisco.html&d=DwMGaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=fA3T4uAm2gJS6K8eux_g80UR5n-rtd2GpmRMO1hHScg&m=kho7NCGW_g5Jrd6FGNLyEcKwSUF6pnn5k2kqRF0oj0Y&s=NtI1RDG8vZUo7sCkzF2lF04x36-1W4b3KK_ZUYYAHFE&e="><span style='color:purple'>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/business/tech-scene-south-park-commons-san-francisco.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:black'>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br></span><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:purple'>Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:black'><br></span><span style='color:black'><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.osu.edu_mailman_listinfo_vwoolf&d=DwMGaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=fA3T4uAm2gJS6K8eux_g80UR5n-rtd2GpmRMO1hHScg&m=kho7NCGW_g5Jrd6FGNLyEcKwSUF6pnn5k2kqRF0oj0Y&s=jBJQ82g_sivOVdKdMWi3SYRonb2PG0BMkZNk3P8QSgE&e="><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:purple'>https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>