
"They really were the progressives and the embodiment of the avant-garde
in early years of this century. Every time we look at them again they
seem to have something for the contemporary world, whether in sexual
ethics, liberation, biography, economics, feminism or painting."
Michael Holroyd, in the San
Francisco Chronicle, 1995
"It is a very fascinating, queer, self-absorbed,
fantastic set of people. But they are very interesting..."
Ray Costelloe, in a letter to Mary Costelloe, 1909
Clive Bellan art critic |
Vanessa (Stephen) Bella painter |
Roger Fryan art critic and painter |
Duncan Granta painter |
John Maynard Keynesan economist |
Desmond MacCarthya journalist and editor |
Thoby Stephenthe Cambridge connection |
Adrian Stephena psychoanalyst |
Lytton Stracheya historian |
Saxon Sydney-Turnera civil servant |
Leonard Woolfa writer, publisher and civil servant |
Virginia (Stephen) Woolfa writer and publisher |