Woolf and her husband, Leonard, later ran Hogarth Press, which published The Wasteland, among other books, out of homes on Tavistock Square and Mecklenburg Square. A plaque for the group has been erected at 50 Gordon Square; Virginia Woolf's plaque, with her maiden name, is located at 29 Fitzroy Square. T.S. Eliot has a second plaque at 24 Russell Square.
It should be noted, however, that Bloomsbury had a literary life apart from Virginia Woolf. After all, until relatively recently, the British Library was housed at the nearby British Museum, drawing countless writers and thinkers over the years, including Karl Marx, Gandhi, and George Bernard Shaw. The museum continues to maintain the old reading room, with its historic desks and chairs, though the books have moved on to a St. Pancras location (described later).
If you'd prefer to imbibe your literary history along with a pint, wander over to the Fitzroy Tavern at 16 Charlotte Street, where writers such as Dylan Thomas and George Orwell hung out in the years between World War I and II.
Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, home of the Fitzroy, are both an easy walk from Charing Cross Road. Alternately, take the tube to Goodge Street for the Fitzroy, or to Russell Square or Tottenham Court Road for Bloomsbury.
