Leonard Woolf

AWE 's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell , whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson , a political mentor as well as a creative advisor; Bertrand and Dora Russell

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...

Her political activities kept AWE at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay , Vita Sackville-West , G. B. Shaw , and...

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.

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...

A time-bomb caused significant damage to 37 Mecklenburgh Square, which had been Virginia and Leonard Woolf 's London residence since August 1939 (they were not there at the time).

In June 2003 news first reached the general public of the re-emergence of a notebook that VW kept during February, March, and November 1909. Leonard Woolf sent this out for typing in 1968, and when...

The recent and longtime London home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , 52 Tavistock Square, was destroyed by a bomb.

The date on which VW began this work has been the subject of much scholarly discussion. Some critics believe she began it soon after the death of her father in 1904. In his autobiography Leonard Woolf

VW wrote what may have been her second suicide letter to her husband Leonard , then went out and drowned herself in the River Ouse near Rodmell.

Hermione Lee sees VW 's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality. Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...

Leonard Woolf proposed to Virginia Stephen , who hesitated to accept his proposal.

VW 's first novel, The Voyage Out, dedicated To L. W., was published by Duckworth and Company .

VW may have begun work on her second novel in 1913; from summer 1913 to autumn 1915, she suffered her worst breakdown ever, Years afterwards, she wrote to Ethel Smyth that when she composed Night...