Apostles

RF graduated with a first-class degree from King's College, Cambridge , where he read Natural Science and was a member of the Apostles , a secret society.

AT was initially educated by his father, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge , which he entered in November 1827 (by which time he had already co-published his first volume of poetry, Poems, by Two...

Lucas, at first a classicist, became both a scholar and critic of English and a creative writer. He was a member of the Apostles society; his fellow-members were, according to Virginia Woolf , amazed at...

Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen and a member of the Apostles . A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first...

Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect (to which VW 's great-grandfather James Stephen