The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club

' The number of people now preoccupied with life-writing and memoirs is extraordinarily large; when we are talking about the figures in the Memoir Club, the interest expands incredibly exponentially. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of understanding the work of the Memoir Club in regard to the history of twentieth-century British culture. And no one would be more qualified than the late S. P. Rosenbaum to write the history of a club that included, basically, the ' membership' of the Bloomsbury Group. ' - Morris Beja, Emeritus Professor of English, Ohio State University, USA

' Rosenbaum' s project, left unfinished at his death in 2012, was to reconstruct as far as possible the club' s history and to republish the existing papers in a single accompanying volume his notes make a convincing case for reconsidering the memoirs in context, as a group of essays with internal connections' - London Review of Books

' Rosenbaum' s study is a valuable addition to the library of any reader interested by the life and writings of the Bloomsbury Group' - Times Literary Supplement

' S P Rosenbaum sadly died before he could complete this book about an aspect of Bloomsbury that is often forgotten the group' s love of autobiography It is nevertheless a fascinating account and of a group who were famously intertwined. ' - Lesley McDowell, The Independent

' Rosenbaum, who died shortly before finishing this fine book, makes a terrific case for the waythat reaching into their personal and collective pasts pushed club members to take their work to new that is, old places. ' - Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian