Leonard Woolf

Standard Name: Woolf, Leonard

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Friends, Associates Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE 's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell , whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson , a political mentor
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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as well as a creative advisor; Bertrand and Dora Russell
politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
In her memoir AWE writes that at this time she was more optimistic than her colleague Leonard Woolf about the possibilities of working with Communists, believing that a strong coalition of the Left was essential...
Friends, Associates Amabel Williams-Ellis
Her political activities kept AWE at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay , Vita Sackville-West , G. B. Shaw , and...
politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
Among those prepared to sign were Virginia and Leonard Woolf .
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
VW had been ill while she was writing this book and was acutely anxious about its quality: she gave the manuscript to Leonard to read with the brief of pronouncing whether or not it was...
Residence Virginia Woolf
Virginia and Leonard Woolf moved to rooms at 13 Clifford's Inn; from this time they began dividing their time between London and Asheham, Virginia's house in Beddingham.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf posthumously published a collection of essays by VW which he entitled The Death of the Moth.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Intertextuality and Influence Virginia Woolf
Many habitual admirers of VW (often those who respected her rationally socialist and feminist views) could not stomach this book—either rejecting as whimsy the framework of three fund-raisers each soliciting a guinea, or jibbing at...
Health Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf began keeping a daily record of VW 's health; he also continued his consultation with physicians about whether she should bear children.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf edited a one-volume selection from VW 's diaries as A Writer's Diary, issued by the Hogarth Press .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Her letter of withdrawal, written very soon before her suicide, dismissed her own work as silly and trivial (which, however, was not very different from the dismissive judgements she was accustomed to deliver on her...
Residence Virginia Woolf
VW was brought to Hogarth House in Richmond, the new home of herself and Leonard , seriously ill and attended by four nurses. But by November the twenty dark years were over, and the...
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 ,...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf , reading the typescript of this novel at the end of February 1941, judged it to be more vigorous and pulled together than most of her other books, to have more depth and...
Residence Virginia Woolf
VW and her husband Leonard purchased their country home, Monk's House in the village of Rodmell, near Lewes in Sussex, for £700. The name was invented by a real estate agent and the...

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