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Socialism in Bloomsbury: Virginia Woolf and the political aesthetics of the 1880s.(George Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb, socialist movement)(Critical essay)

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20070101
Author:Livesey, Ruth

ABSTRACT

This article contrasts Virginia Woolfs resistance to Fabian socialists such as George Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb with her response to the earlier, aesthetic socialism of William Morris. Woolf's Bloomsbury was connected to such 1880s radicalism through the translator Constance Garnett and the circle of 'Neo-Pagans' whose parents had followed the 'religion of socialism' at the turn of the century. Woolf's Preface to Life as We Have Known It offers a studied negation of the democratic aesthetics and communalist sympathies of the 1880s, and marks Woolf's separation ...

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