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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
While woolgathering for her upcoming Women and Fiction lectures at Cambridge , VW met with Jane Ellen Harrison for the last time; in her diary she described her as very aged & rather exalted.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
3: 175-6
Occupation Virginia Woolf
Increasingly in demand as a public speaker, VW lectured at the London School of Economics. Her talk to the CambridgeHeretics Society the following May grew into her essay Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
471
politics Virginia Woolf
VW refused to deliver the Clark lecture series at Cambridge University , thereby also declining to succeed her father, scholar Leslie Stephen , in this honour.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 172
Publishing Virginia Woolf
VW published Women and Fiction (from her two lectures given at the women's colleges at Cambridge ) in Forum (New York).
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
368
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Leslie Stephen 's daughter from his previous marriage, Laura (1868-1934), suffered from some form of mental disability and lived most of her life in institutions.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
74
Julia Stephen had three children from her first marriage...
Other Life Event Charlotte Yonge
A subscription was raised at Winchester School to found a scholarship in honour of CY , to take boys from the school on to Oxford or Cambridge .
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House.
viii
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

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