Leonard Woolf

Standard Name: Woolf, Leonard

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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
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...
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
MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...
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
Frances Partridge writes that JS was generally judged by them to be a lively and...
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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