Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
Health | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf
began keeping a daily record of VW
's health; he also continued his consultation with physicians about whether she should bear children. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 26 |
Health | Virginia Woolf | VW
refused to see Leonard
for two months, sent disturbing letters to friends, and was reported to have attacked her nurses. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 330-1 |
Health | Virginia Woolf | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 74 |
Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | 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, Associates | Julia Strachey | Friends and neighbours here included James
and Alix Strachey
, Clive Bell
, and Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown. 105 |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Laura Riding | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | In Paris Harrison and Mirrlees entertained guests including Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, with whom they had been friendly for some time, and Jessie Stewart
. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 9, 296-8 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Ling Shuhua | Through her first Bloomsbury connections, LS developed working friendships with Leonard Woolf
and Vita Sackville-West
: Woolf extended his late wife
's encouragement of LS's writing and ultimately published her memoir, Ancient Melodies, with... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Robins | In 1928 Octavia introduced ER
to her distant relative Virginia Woolf
(whose doctor she later became). Elizabeth and Octavia remained friendly with the Woolfs for years, and were devastated by Virginia's suicide in 1941. On... |
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