article_snippet: John Maynard Keynes' entered into ‘love’ triangles with such Bloomsbury names as Lytton Strachey and Lytton Strachey brother.
article_snippet: — Lytton was tall, ungainly, with a tuft of red beard, glasses and a shrill voice, matched by Keynes, whom Virginia Woolf described as ‘a gorged seal, double chin, ledge of red lip, little eyes, central, brutal, unimaginative’
article_snippet: they came to an end when Keynes’ encounters in Cambridge fell seriously in love with Duncan Grant, the painter of the Bloomsbury Set who had long been the lover of Lytton Strachey.
article_snippet: Lytton Strachey let out a hyena scream of pain when Keynes’ encounters in Cambridge found out.
article_snippet: Strangely enough, it was Keynes’ love for Duncan Grant, who then had a love affair with Virginia Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell, that changed Keynes’ encounters in Cambridge in the same direction.
article_snippet: It was three years before they got together at a country house party and were swiftly married with Duncan Grant as best man.
article_snippet: She looked after Keynes, who began showing symptoms of a weak heart.
article_snippet: Worn out by meetings and speeches, Keynes limped home to England with Loppy on the Queen Mary, only to die in her arms at their country house a few weeks later.