Leonard Woolf

In Paris Harrison and Mirrlees entertained guests including Virginia and Leonard Woolf , with whom they had been friendly for some time, and Jessie Stewart .

Through her first Bloomsbury connections, LS developed working friendships with Leonard Woolf and Vita Sackville-West : Woolf extended his late wife 's encouragement of LS's writing and ultimately published her memoir, Ancient Melodies, with...

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...

SB first met Virginia and Leonard Woolf .

When ST 's parents and Leslie Stephen tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa (later Bell), and Virginia (later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early...

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 ,...

SB met Lord David Cecil at a dinner with Virginia and Leonard Woolf , after which they all went on to Clive and Vanessa Bell 's house.

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 ...

EMF went up to study at King's College , Cambridge . While there, he became a member of the Apostles, and met several future member of the Bloomsbury Group, including J. M. Keynes , Thoby Stephen

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

VW refused to see Leonard for two months, sent disturbing letters to friends, and was reported to have attacked her nurses.

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...

Leonard Woolf began keeping a daily record of VW 's health; he also continued his consultation with physicians about whether she should bear children.

Leonard Woolf later said that this poem had greater influence upon English poetry, indeed upon English literature, than any other in the 20th century.

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...