Leonard Woolf

Standard Name: Woolf, Leonard

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Literary responses Vita Sackville-West
Leonard Woolf thought this VSW 's best poem. Her lovers or ex-lovers were upset at the sentiments quoted above.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
296-7
Literary responses Rose Macaulay
Forster himself clearly did not like her treatment of him. To Leonard Woolf , the publisher, he said it was not a good book: tactful, gratifying, and in a sense intelligent, but tamely conceived and...
Literary responses Vita Sackville-West
Leonard Woolf thought this VSW 's best novel.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
237
It brought her even more letters than The Edwardians.
Literary responses Dorothy Wellesley
Leonard Woolf was for him, rather impressed with this sequence; Virginia said she approved of Wellesley's having decided to write about cats and rocks, instead of the birth of man.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
4: 198
Literary responses Katherine Mansfield
After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.
Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 7, pp. 25-6.
25
KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...
Literary responses Stella Gibbons
SG 's Cold Comfort Farm won the Prix Femina Vie-Heureuse, worth forty pounds (as Webb 's Precious Bane had done only seven years previously). Gibbons's award was presented in June 1934.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
5: 303-4 and 303n1
Literary responses Radclyffe Hall
The initial reviews of The Well treated it with respect and found nothing to offend. The Times Literary Supplement called it sincere, courageous, high-minded and often beautifully expressed.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
241
The main objection, expressed most notably...
Literary responses Radclyffe Hall
A number of writers rallied in support of RH . E. M. Forster and Leonard Woolf drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw , T. S. Eliot
Literary responses T. S. Eliot
A Times Literary Supplement review which considered both this volume and John Middleton Murry 's The Critic in Judgment; or, Belshazzar of Baronscourt (also a Hogarth Press volume) found Murry facile but Eliot impoverished by...
Literary responses Rosamond Lehmann
Leonard Woolf (in the The Nation and Athenæum on 10 September 1927), Desmond MacCarthy , Arnold Bennett , and Rose Macaulay all had more or less serious reservations about the book: Macaulay used very readable...
Literary responses Lady Cynthia Asquith
D. H. Lawrence blamed LCA 's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries.
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
127
Once they were published, Roger Fulford in the Times Literary Supplement anticipated that the upper-class lifestyle depicted in the diaries might...
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...
Literary responses Enid Bagnold
Not surprisingly, the article came under attack from many directions. Dame Ethel Smyth responded in the next issue of the Sunday Times: It surprises me that so brilliant an intelligence should not remember that...
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...
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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