Cast of Characters
Occupations / positions are as at August 1914, when the story begins, or when each character first appears.
In most cases, you can click on character’s names to read about them.
The Bloomsbury Group
John Maynard Keynes - Cambridge don
Leonard Woolf - aspiring writer
Vanessa Bell - painter
Virginia Woolf - aspiring writer, wife of Leonard, sister of Vanessa
Clive Bell - art critic, husband of Vanessa
Duncan Grant - painter
Lytton Strachey - writer
David ‘Bunny’ Garnett - botanist
Roger Fry - artist and Critic
Morgan Forster - novelist
Friends and Acquaintances
Mary Hutchinson - artist’s model, lover of Clive Bell
Sidney Webb - political theorist and Fabian
Beatrice Webb - political theorist and Fabian
Bertie Russell - philosopher
David Lawrence - novelist
Katherine Mansfield - writer
Feri Bekassy - poet
Tom Eliot - poet
Dora Carrington - painter
Barbara Hiles - painter
S. S. Koteliansky - literary translator
Francis Birrell - writer
Politicians
Herbert Asquith - Prime Minister
David Lloyd George - Chancellor of the Exchequer
Reginald McKenna - Home Secretary
Field Marshall Lord Kitchener - Secretary of State for War
Lord Lansdowne - Minister without portfolio
Woodrow Wilson - President of the United States
Lord Reading - Lord Chief Justice
Andrew Bonar Law - Leader of the opposition
Georges Clemenceau - Prime Minister of France
Louis-Lucien Klotz - French Finance Minister
Military
Joseph Griffiths - surgeon
Raymond Asquith - Asquith’s son by his first marriage
Philip Woolf - soldier, Leonard’s younger brother
Cecil Woolf - soldier, Leonard’s younger brother
Ferdinand Foch - Supreme Allied Commander
Richard Haking - British general
Rosslyn Wemyss - British admiral
Others
Archibald Hill - physiologist, Keynes’ brother-in-law
Margaret Hill - sister of Keynes, married to Archie
Basil Blackett - civil servant
George Paish - economist
Edwin Montagu - Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Venetia Stanley - socialite, married to Edwin Montagu
Margot Asquith - married to Herbert Asquith
Elizabeth Asquith - daughter of Herbert and Margot
Ottoline Morrell - society hostess
Edward House - American diplomat
Maurice Wright - doctor
Robert Bridges - Poet Laureate
Cecil Spring Rice - British Ambassador to the United States
Charles Holmes - Director of the National Gallery, London
Lydia Lopokova - Russian ballerina
Norman Davis - American diplomat
Carl Melchior - German diplomat
Robert Cecil - British diplomat
Sidney Waterlow - British diplomat