Leonard Woolf

While living in Paris, Mirrlees and Harrison entertained visitors who included HM 's mother (widowed in 1924), and Virginia and Leonard Woolf . The two women were acquainted with Edith Wharton , Dorothy (Strachey)

There are three characters in this text: Woolf herself, appearing both in her youth and in maturity; The Man (who represents now her father Leslie Stephen and now her husband Leonard Woolf ); and Woolf's...

ER contributed an essay on Changes in Public Life to Our Freedom and Its Results, a feminist anthology edited by Ray Strachey and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf .

In September 1934, she met S. S. Koteliansky , known as Kot to such friends and associates as Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry , D. H. Lawrence , and Virginia and Leonard Woolf ...

Graves and Riding were touchy as friends, between their sense of literary mission (they saw Graves's biography of T. E. Lawrence as a somewhat demeaning potboiler, not part of his real work at all) and...

Robert Graves helped persuade Leonard and Virginia Woolf to publish it.

ER had bought the farm (near the village of Henfield) in April 1908, with the help of earnings from her novel The Convert. In 1927 it became a place where women suffering...

In 1928 Octavia introduced ER to her distant relative Virginia Woolf (whose doctor she later became). Elizabeth and Octavia remained friendly with the Woolfs for years, and were devastated by Virginia's suicide in 1941. On...

Leonard Woolf sorted through ER 's papers after her death. After Octavia Wilberforce died, the papers went to Fales Library at New York University .ER 's stage costumes are in the...

During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson , Ottoline Morrell , T. S. Eliot , W. B. Yeats , G. B. and Charlotte Shaw , Desmond MacCarthy ...

Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf, written on 26 March 1923, was an invitation to join the PEN club . Sackville-West did not yet know Woolf at all well, since she supposed Woolf...

Leonard Woolf thought this VSW 's best poem. Her lovers or ex-lovers were upset at the sentiments quoted above.

Leonard Woolf thought this VSW 's best novel. It brought her even more letters than The Edwardians.

Leonard Woolf (without Virginia to consult with, but with the full support of John Lehmann ) turned down Grand Canyon. So did Heinemann , for the same reasons: the potential blow to British morale...

Virginia Woolf had asked her on 6 June to send the manuscript, and proposed that she should publish it with the Hogarth Press as well as in the magazine Good Housekeeping. Leonard Woolf advised...