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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 128 |
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. 323 Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 227 |
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. 26 |
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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