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<div class="">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? </div>
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<div class="">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:
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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. </div>
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<div class="">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: </div>
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<div class="">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. </div>
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<div class="">Happy summer everyone!</div>
<div class="">Jane </div>
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<div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Jane Garrity<br class="">
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<div class="">On Jul 5, 2017, at 10:58 AM, Brenda S. Helt <<a href="mailto:helt0010@umn.edu" class="">helt0010@umn.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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Well, first, nobody who knows much of anything about the Bloomsbury Group calls them the “Bloomsbury<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">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 class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Vwoolf [<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On
Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Laura Zander<br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, July 05, 2017 8:39 AM<br class="">
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Vwoolf] Silicon Valley's Bloomsbury? Methinks not.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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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 class="">
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