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Membership (Group - Cat)

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OK, let's get this sorted (first version Francis Schonken (talk) 08:57, 15 June 2014 (UTC)):[reply]

YES

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Core members

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Extended list (L. Woolf)

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'Old Bloomsbury':

later additions:

Other lists (Lee)

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Accepted into the group (Clark)

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NO

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Near but *NOT* Bloomsbury Group

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  • G. E. Moore
  • T. S. Eliot ("Hogarth Press published author")
  • Katherine Mansfield ("Hogarth Press published author")
  • Hugh Walpole
  • Vita Sackville-West (LGBT, also "Hogarth Press published author")
  • D. H. Lawrence (LGBT? See: Francis Spalding, Duncan Grant: A Biography. (1997) p. 169-170: (around 1915 Lawrence warned David Garnett against homosexual tendencies like those of Francis Birrell, Duncan Grant and Keynes:) "Lawrence's views, as Quentin Bell was the first to suggest and S. P. Rosenbaum has argued conclusively, were stirred by a dread of his own homosexual susceptibilities, which are revealed in his writings, notably the cancelled prologue to Women in Love" - so in his way also Critic of Bloomsbury, critic of its sexual moral, while nonetheless very near to the core members of the group in the era at Bloomsbury)
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Arthur Waley
  • Harold Nicolson (LGBT)

Critics of Bloomsbury (also *not* in group)

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Unaccounted for

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Other "Cambridge apostels"

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  • Thoby Stephen (died before Omega Workshop (precursor to Bloomsbury Group) came into existence)

Bloomsbury "set"

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(basically: frequent interactions with the group in Bloomsbury, but not part of the Bloomsbury Group as a movement)

Interactions only starting after key members left Bloomsbury, not part of movement

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Later offspring

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  • Cressida Bell, daughter of Quentin Bell
  • Burgo Partridge son of the widower of Dora Carrington (also: married daughter of Angelica and David Garnett)

LGBT extensions

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In main cat:

Only in LGBT subcat:

Rather Ottoline Morrell circle

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Hogarth Press personnel and published authors

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Unclear

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(e.g. Bloomsbury not mentioned in biographical article)

Sorting out the "unaccounted for"s

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Suggestions welcome! --Francis Schonken (talk) 09:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Francis, I think you're trying to use categories for something they're simply not meant to be used for. All of the above - "close to the movement but not part of it but was the boyfriend of someone who was in the movement" etc, all of that belongs in an article, not in some sophisticated category tree. We should create a subcategory of this one called "Bloomsbury group members" and add anyone about whom reliable sources regularly say "X was a member of the Bloomsbury group". Otherwise, the rest should just go into the article per sources, describing their interactions with the group accordingly.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 01:16, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I'm concerned everything is sorted now, with the additional subcats, structured list, and removal of questionable inclusions from the main cat. Won't say a tweak here or there woudn't be welcome, but overall I think the direction is OK. --Francis Schonken (talk) 07:35, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]