Leonard Woolf

During RL 's involvement with Goronwy Rees, they both encouraged novelist Henry Green (actual name Henry Yorke ) to submit the manuscript of his Party Going to John Lehmann, who promoted it with Leonard and...

Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane , Labour leader Arthur Henderson , Liberal politician Herbert Samuel , G. B. Shaw , and political psychologist Graham Wallas , the last two both Fabians. They...

Having achieved a footing of friendship with Walter Sickert and the others of the Fitzroy Street Group , NH went on through Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell to get to know the members of the...

While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands . During the early...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

VT was gathering material for her upcoming roman à clef, Broderie Anglaise, about herself, Vita Sackville-West , and Woolf (with whom Vita had been intimately involved for several years). Woolf wrote about the meeting...

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

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...

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...

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