The world of Bloombury is one of pictures and people; it is an artistic and literary style, and also a group of original and creative individuals whose lives have long fascinated the public imagination. Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Katherine Mansfield, Frances Partridge, Angelica Garnett: many exceptional women were associated with Bloomsbury Their writings, diaries, letters and memoirs provide vivid accounts of friendship, love, art, jealousy, suicide, gossip and day-to-day affairs over forty years.