Leonard 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.

Virginia and Leonard Woolf gave their first broadcast for the BBC —a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published?

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...

A second Post-Impressionist exhibition, organized by RF , was held at the Grafton Gallery in London; Leonard Woolf , back in England from Ceylon, was its secretary.

In September 1917, HSW agreed to serialize James Joyce's Ulysses in The Egoist, paying him an advance of £50. But when her printers, the Complete Press saw the first episode (Telemachus) they...

ER had bought the farm (near the village of Henfield) in April 1908, with the help of earnings from her novel The Convert. In 1927 it became a place where women suffering...

Her venues for exhibiting included the Zwemmer Gallery and Adams Galleries in London in 1949 and the Musée Cernuschi in Paris in 1953. In his introduction to the Cernuschi catalogue, author André Maurois reflects on...

Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay

He read an early draft of this poem to Mary Hutchinson and Virginia and Leonard Woolf on the evening of 17 October 1928.

In November 1928 SJ was one of many authors (including E. M. Forster , Virginia and Leonard Woolf , and Desmond MacCarthy ) prepared to testify in defence of Radclyffe Hall 's lesbian novel The...

In her memoir AWE writes that at this time she was more optimistic than her colleague Leonard Woolf about the possibilities of working with Communists, believing that a strong coalition of the Left was essential...

Among those prepared to sign were Virginia and Leonard 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.

JS was interested in the theatre both before and after she met her husband, Lawrence Gowing , a prominent artist whose work included some set design and painting. During the late 1930s and...

Virginia Woolf had asked her on 6 June to send the manuscript, and proposed that she should publish it with the Hogarth Press as well as in the magazine Good Housekeeping. Leonard Woolf advised...