Leonard Woolf

Standard Name: Woolf, Leonard

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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.
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Occupation Virginia Woolf
VW signed an agreement with John Lehmann , selling her share in the Hogarth Press for £3,000; from now on Lehmann was Leonard 's partner in the press.
Gaither, Mary E., and J. Howard Woolmer. “The Hogarth Press: 1917-1938”. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938, Hogarth Press, pp. 3-24.
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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.
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Residence Virginia Woolf
Eager to return to the excitement of the city after nearly a decade at Hogarth House in Richmond, Virginia and Leonard Woolf purchased a ten-year lease on 52 Tavistock Square, London.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Health Virginia Woolf
VW refused to see Leonard for two months, sent disturbing letters to friends, and was reported to have attacked her nurses.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Occupation Virginia Woolf
Virginia and Leonard Woolf gave their first broadcast for the BBC —a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published?
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Occupation Virginia Woolf
In October 1928 VW addressed in turn the students of the two Cambridge women's colleges: first Newnham , then Girton . She developed these lectures on women and writing into A Room of One's Own...
politics Virginia Woolf
Virginia and Leonard Woolf discussed suicide in the quite probable event of a German invasion of England. They considered carbon monoxide poisoning in their garage, and, later, an overdose of morphia.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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Health Virginia Woolf
In March and April 1936 VW had a period of threatened breakdown. This was a time of overwork against the clock (not uncommon in her professional life), of the visible political threat of Hitler (who...
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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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...
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 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
death Virginia Woolf
VW wrote what may have been her second suicide letter to her husband Leonard , then went out and drowned herself in the River Ouse near Rodmell.
Her first suicide note may have been...

Timeline

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

Writing climate item

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,...

Writing climate item

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...

Building item

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...

Women writers item

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...

Writing climate item

1925

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

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

Building item

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.