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Performance of text | Virginia Woolf | VW
's nonsense comedy, Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 86 Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 246 |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | She travelled with Vanessa
and Angelica Bell
to Cambridge, where she stayed with Pernel Strachey
, Principal of Newnham. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Virginia and Vanessa
(1879-1961, the eldest of Leslie and Julia Stephen's children), were close to one another throughout their lives. In A Sketch of the Past, VW
recalls that after the death of their... |
Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | Ethel Smyth
sent her responses to this book by telegram on publication day: Book astounding so far. Agitatingly increases value of life. Two days later she sent: Final paragraph almost smashes machine of life with... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | The eldest of Julia's children from her first marriage, George Duckworth
(1868-1934), was ten when his mother married VW
's father. He grew into a conservative young man and a social climber. After Julia's death... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | |
Residence | Virginia Woolf | Because Virginia was recovering from her breakdown after her father's death, Vanessa
took the primary responsibility for settling the family into their newly independent life. Virginia instead spent some time out of London, staying with... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Early members of what VW
called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen
, Leonard Woolf
, Clive Bell
, E. M. Forster
,... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf
, E. M. Forster
, and Lytton Strachey
, the economic theories of Maynard Keynes |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
was especially pleased with her new ability to publish her own texts. She later observed: I'm the only woman in England free to write what I like. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 374-5, 818 |
Residence | Virginia Woolf | Virginia was keen to regain access to the amenities of London—music, the British Museum
, social life (her delight in parties, she wrote, was a piece of jewellery I inherit from my mother) Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 2: 250 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | |
politics | Virginia Woolf | The event was organized in part by Pippa Strachey
; other guests included Vanessa Bell
, Cicely Hamilton
, Laura Knight
, Vita Sackville-West
and Harold Nicolson
, and T. S. Eliot
. Here Woolf... |
Travel | Virginia Woolf | Virginia
and Vanessa Stephen
(later Woolf and Bell) and Violet Dickinson
left England for Greece, where at Olympia on 13 September they met up with Thoby
and Adrian Stephen
. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | As when her brother Thoby
died in 1906, Virginia became a source of strength during the family crisis, concentrating especially on the needs of her bereaved sister, Vanessa Bell
. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 702-3 |
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