1. Effect of Bloomsbury group in
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
• Paper: The Modernist literature
• Presented By: Poojaba Jadeja
• Roll No.: 20
• Year: 2014, semester 3rd
• Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Guardy Department of
English, Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. Effect of Bloomsbury group in
Virginia Woolf’s
“To the Lighthouse”

3. Introduction
• The Bloomsbury Group was an influential group of
associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers
and artists… This loose collective of friends and
relatives lived, worked or studied together near
Bloomsbury, London, during the first half of the 20th
century.

4. Members of Bloomsbury group
• E. M. Forster, Novelist
• Leonard Woolf, writer
• Vanessa Bell, painter
• J. M. Keynes, economist
• Clive Bell, art critic
• Roger Fry, modern painter, art critic
• Virginia Woolf, novelist

5. Effect of Bloomsbury group
• Experimental literature
• Intellectual language
• Narrative Technique
• Stream of consciousness
• Various themes

6. Sense of intellectual and aesthetic life
• Character of Mr. Ramsay as philosopher
• Lily Briscoe – a painter
• Augustus Carmichael, a poet
• Gathering at island

7. Revolt against
Victorianism
“We found ourselves living in the springtime of a
conscious revolt against the social, political,
religious, moral, intellectual and artistic
institutions, beliefs and standards of our fathers
and grandfathers…we were out to construct
something new; we were in the van of the
builders of a new society which should be free,
rational, civilized, pursuing truth and beauty.”
-Leonard Woolf (“Sowing”)

8. Revolt against Victorianism
Mr. Ramsay
• Hypothetical
questions,
ideas
James
• Against his
father
Mrs. Ramsay
• Mother and
hostess
Lily Briscoe &
daughters
• Artist, feminist

9. Second world war
• Anti - war ideas,
• Andrew’s death in To the Lighthouse

10. Social concern
“Central definition of the social significance of the
Bloomsbury group. They were a true fraction of the
existing English upper class. They were at once
against its dominated ideas and values and still
willingly, in all immediate ways part of it.”
-Raymond Williams
(‘The Bloomsbury fraction’, problems in materialism and culture,1980)

11. • Characters of the novel
• Mrs. Ramsay’s thinking

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