Octavia Wilberforce

Standard Name: Wilberforce, Octavia

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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Robins
In her late forties ER developed a close relationship with a young physician, Octavia Wilberforce . They moved into the same flat in 1917. While Elizabeth and Octavia were clearly devoted to one another, the...
Health Virginia Woolf
In considering the various issues which prepared the ground for VW 's suicide, critics have noted her feelings of horror about the war, her writing, her past, and most particularly the prospect of another mental...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
In her audience at Brighton were Elizabeth Robins (feminist writer, actress, and Hogarth Press author) and her companion Octavia Wilberforce , a pioneering physician who was soon to become Woolf's doctor.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Occupation Elizabeth Robins
Persuaded by physician Octavia Wilberforce , ER converted Backsettown Farm, her property in Sussex, into a convalescent home for overworked women.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
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Reception Elizabeth Robins
Leonard Woolf sorted through ER 's papers after her death.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
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After Octavia Wilberforce died, the papers went to Fales Library at New York University .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
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Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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ER 's stage costumes are in the...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Throughout her writing VW had the usual experience of planning literary projects which then did not come to fruition. Late in her life, combining fragments of anthropology, sociology, and psychology with literary history, she began...

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