At Cambridge, Fry became friends with Thoby Stephen
, Clive Bell
, and Leonard Woolf
; he later joined them and others as an original member of the Bloomsbury Group
.
Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
VW
's brother Thoby Stephen
died of typhoid fever, aged twenty-six.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
Virginia's elder brother, Thoby (1880-1906), was confident, talented, charming, and very important to her. At Trinity College, Cambridge
, he developed a circle of friends who were to be the core of the Bloomsbury Group...
Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Stephen flirted mildly with and received proposals from a number of men, all Cambridge
contemporaries of her brother Thoby
.
Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge
friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen
and a member of the Apostles
. A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first...
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, 1996.
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Friends, Associates
E. M. Forster
EMF
went up to study at King's College
, Cambridge
. While there, he became a member of the Apostles, and met several future member of the Bloomsbury Group, including J. M. Keynes
, Thoby Stephen
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Thoby Stephen
, VW
's brother, started Thursday Evenings at 46 Gordon Square, mainly so that he could keep in touch with his Cambridge University
friends. These gatherings marked the beginning of what came...
Health
Virginia Woolf
Years later, looking back, VW
attached to this time a shift in her creative development, the sharpening of her sensations and thoughts. She met her brother Thoby
at Paddington Station when he came to Julia's...
Textual Features
Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee sees VW
's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
154
Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
A newspaper rejected this piece, but Thoby Stephen
felt it showed that Virginia might be a bit of a genius.
qtd. in
Froula, Christine. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde. Columbia University Press, 2005.
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Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
The Hogarth Press
published VW
's third novel, Jacob's Room: both a literary experiment and an elegy, for Thoby
and all the young men lost in the Great War, a protest against the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room is often said to be the first of VW
's fictional recreations of her brother Thoby (the others being The Waves and A Sketch of the Past). Hermione Lee calls the work...
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
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Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
Lee, Hermione et al. “Foreword”. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper, edited by Gill Lowe and Gill Lowe, Hesperus Press, 2005, p. vii - x.
Woolf, Virginia et al. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper. Editor Lowe, Gill, Hesperus, 2005.
Woolf, Virginia et al. “Introduction”. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper, edited by Gill Lowe, Hesperus Press, 2005, p. xi - xviii.