Leonard Woolf

Standard Name: Woolf, Leonard

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Violence Virginia Woolf
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).
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Violence Virginia Woolf
The recent and longtime London home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , 52 Tavistock Square, was destroyed by a bomb.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Flora Macdonald Mayor
FMM 's second major novel, The Rector's Daughter, appeared from the Hogarth Presson a commission basis, with the help of Leonard and Virginia Woolf .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan.
45
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
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...
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf .
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press.
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They had written on 11 June...
Textual Production Elizabeth Griffith
For this move into fiction they chose the epistolary style in which they had already succeeded, and used their former pseudonyms: by the authors of Henry and Frances. Richard's novel was The Gordian Knot...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
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
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Carrington took on other work for the Press : she designed numerous paper book covers with linoleum cuts (because easier to work with and less expensive than wood); in 1921 she created the cover (with...
Textual Production Vernon Lee
Virginia and Leonard Woolf 's Hogarth Press published VL 's The Poet's Eye, Notes on Some Differences Between Verse and Prose.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Textual Production Julia Strachey
JS ' first novel, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, was published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf 's Hogarth Press .
Cheerful Weather was the title of a waltz current in the year of publication.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Textual Production Rosamond Lehmann
RL 's Letter to a Sister was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press as the third in their Hogarth Letters Series.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
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Woolmer, J. Howard. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938. Hogarth Press.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW may have begun work on her second novel in 1913; from summer 1913 to autumn 1915, she suffered her worst breakdown ever, Years afterwards, she wrote to Ethel Smyth that when she composed Night...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
The first publication of the Hogarth Press was Two Stories, Written and Printed by Virginia Woolf and L. S. Woolf: her The Mark on the Wall and his Three Jews.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
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Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
She and Leonard took over the sheets from the original publisher, her half-brother Gerald Duckworth .
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
Virginia and Leonard Woolf published TSE 's early Poems (including Sweeney among the Nightingales) at the Hogarth Press .
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Woolmer, J. Howard. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938. Hogarth Press.
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Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
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Timeline

By March 1913: Leonard Woolf published the first of his...

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By March 1913

Leonard Woolf published the first of his two novels, The Village in the Jungle, which is set in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and relates events so far as possible from the viewpoint of view...

After 18 February 1914: Leonard Woolf published his second novel,...

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After 18 February 1914

Leonard Woolf published his second novel, The Wise Virgins (which he had begun to write on his honeymoon). Quite different in genre from his first, it is a roman à clef reputedly presenting harsh caricatures...

From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...

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From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.

1924: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth...

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1924

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press published The Rector's Daughter, a novel by F. M. (or Flora Macdonald) Mayor .

1925: Leonard and Virginia Woolf published Edwin...

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1925

Leonard and Virginia Woolf published Edwin Muir 's First Poems.

1928: Members of the British Federation of University...

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1928

Members of the British Federation of University Women (later known as the British Federation of Women Graduates ) established the Sybil Campbell Libraryfor the study of the expansion of the role of women in recent generations.

Texts

Woolf, Virginia. A Writer’s Diary. Editor Woolf, Leonard, Hogarth Press, 1953.
Woolf, Virginia. “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid”. The Death of the Moth, edited by Leonard Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1942, pp. 154-7.
Woolf, Virginia, and Leonard Woolf. Two Stories. Hogarth Press, 1917.