Leonard Woolf

Standard Name: Woolf, Leonard

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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...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , E. M. Forster , and Lytton Strachey , the economic theories of Maynard Keynes
Occupation Virginia Woolf
Virginia and Leonard Woolf ordered a printing press. It was delivered to Hogarth House in Richmond on 24 April.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
363
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
The household in Brunswick Square comprised Virginia and Adrian Stephen , John Maynard Keynes , and Duncan Grant . On 4 December 1911 Leonard Woolf joined it.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
23
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf worked for Roger Fry as secretary of the second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, held at the Grafton Gallery from October 1912 to January 1913.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
324

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.