Leonard Woolf

Her political activities kept AWE at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay , Vita Sackville-West , G. B. Shaw , and...

Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree , also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary...

Friends and neighbours here included James and Alix Strachey , Clive Bell , and Virginia and Leonard Woolf .Frances Partridge writes that JS was generally judged by them to be a lively and...

One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...

During RL 's involvement with Goronwy Rees, they both encouraged novelist Henry Green (actual name Henry Yorke ) to submit the manuscript of his Party Going to John Lehmann, who promoted it with Leonard and...

Having achieved a footing of friendship with Walter Sickert and the others of the Fitzroy Street Group , NH went on through Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell to get to know the members of the...

While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands . During the early...

Graves and Riding were touchy as friends, between their sense of literary mission (they saw Graves's biography of T. E. Lawrence as a somewhat demeaning potboiler, not part of his real work at all) and...

VT was gathering material for her upcoming roman à clef, Broderie Anglaise, about herself, Vita Sackville-West , and Woolf (with whom Vita had been intimately involved for several years). Woolf wrote about the meeting...

In Paris Harrison and Mirrlees entertained guests including Virginia and Leonard Woolf , with whom they had been friendly for some time, and Jessie Stewart .

Leonard Woolf began keeping a daily record of VW 's health; he also continued his consultation with physicians about whether she should bear children.

VW refused to see Leonard for two months, sent disturbing letters to friends, and was reported to have attacked her nurses.

In March and April 1936 VW had a period of threatened breakdown. This was a time of overwork against the clock (not uncommon in her professional life), of the visible political threat of Hitler (who...

Leonard Woolf later said that this poem had greater influence upon English poetry, indeed upon English literature, than any other in the 20th century.

Many habitual admirers of VW (often those who respected her rationally socialist and feminist views) could not stomach this book—either rejecting as whimsy the framework of three fund-raisers each soliciting a guinea, or jibbing at...