How can we explain the enduring prominence of the Bloomsbury Group? And what would they have made of their appeal to a mainstream audience that they explicitly despised and ridiculed? The two questions are connected.
Life in Squares, a TV miniseries that began on 27 July, dramatises the group’s friendships and famously tangled sexual relationships. The demands of limited space precludes a full summary of Bloomsbury affairs. As Dorothy Parker quipped, they “lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”.
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