Leonard Woolf

This correspondence was generative on multiple levels. LS lost her manuscript during the tumult of the Sino-Japanese War. Virginia Woolf kept the chapters LS sent to her and when, years after Woolf died, LS arrived...

DB first wrote Olivia in 1933 and then sent the manuscript to her friend André Gide . Gide found it not very engaging and, according to Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright ...

Leonard Woolf (without Virginia to consult with, but with the full support of John Lehmann ) turned down Grand Canyon. So did Heinemann , for the same reasons: the potential blow to British morale...

The Inneses moved to Lewes, Sussex, where George was partner in an engineering business. Here they were not too far from Virginia and Leonard Woolf , though there is no evidence that they ever...

Virginia and Leonard Woolf moved to rooms at 13 Clifford's Inn; from this time they began dividing their time between London and Asheham, Virginia's house in Beddingham.

VW was brought to Hogarth House in Richmond, the new home of herself and Leonard , seriously ill and attended by four nurses. But by November the twenty dark years were over, and the...

VW and her husband Leonard purchased their country home, Monk's House in the village of Rodmell, near Lewes in Sussex, for £700. The name was invented by a real estate agent and the...

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.

Jacob's Room departs sharply from her two earlier novels in both its method and its subject. Leonard Woolf felt on first reading it that Virginia's characters were ghosts or puppets. It is fragmentary, like...

The novel details the literary and romantic triangles among writer Anne Lindell (a sketch to some extent inspired by VT herself), the former lover of aristocrat John Shorne (Sackville-West ), who is having an...

Like many liberal and left-wing white intellectuals, KEI seemed to hold the view that Africans, Indians, and Aboriginals (from New Zealand and North America) did need protection and the benefit of white men's disinterestedness...

While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...

Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf, written on 26 March 1923, was an invitation to join the PEN club . Sackville-West did not yet know Woolf at all well, since she supposed Woolf...

There are three characters in this text: Woolf herself, appearing both in her youth and in maturity; The Man (who represents now her father Leslie Stephen and now her husband Leonard Woolf ); and Woolf's...

Her title makes multiple allusion to disparate other texts. Its first four words are quoted from a poem of aspiration by Christina Rossetti ; the rest of it alludes to E. M. Forster 's semi-disillusioned...