Leonard Woolf

VW signed an agreement with John Lehmann , selling her share in the Hogarth Press for £3,000; from now on Lehmann was Leonard 's partner in the press.

Leonard Woolf worked for Roger Fry as secretary of the second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, held at the Grafton Gallery from October 1912 to January 1913.

Eager to return to the excitement of the city after nearly a decade at Hogarth House in Richmond, Virginia and Leonard Woolf purchased a ten-year lease on 52 Tavistock Square, London.

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

Virginia and Leonard Woolf gave their first broadcast for the BBC —a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published?

In October 1928 VW addressed in turn the students of the two Cambridge women's colleges: first Newnham , then Girton . She developed these lectures on women and writing into A Room of One's Own...

Virginia and Leonard Woolf discussed suicide in the quite probable event of a German invasion of England. They considered carbon monoxide poisoning in their garage, and, later, an overdose of morphia.

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...

A time-bomb caused significant damage to 37 Mecklenburgh Square, which had been Virginia and Leonard Woolf 's London residence since August 1939 (they were not there at the time).

In June 2003 news first reached the general public of the re-emergence of a notebook that VW kept during February, March, and November 1909. Leonard Woolf sent this out for typing in 1968, and when...

The recent and longtime London home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , 52 Tavistock Square, was destroyed by a bomb.

The date on which VW began this work has been the subject of much scholarly discussion. Some critics believe she began it soon after the death of her father in 1904. In his autobiography Leonard Woolf

VW wrote what may have been her second suicide letter to her husband Leonard , then went out and drowned herself in the River Ouse near Rodmell.

Hermione Lee sees VW 's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality. Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...