Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leonard Woolf
Standard Name: Woolf, Leonard
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Virginia Woolf | The following year, for the first time in her career, she was earning more by her novels than by her essays and reviews. Her earned income grew markedly during this period, and she took much... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Stephen
married Leonard Woolf
(no longer a colonial administrator) at St Pancras Registry Office and the pair embarked on a writing life in London Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 25 |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf
posthumously published a collection of essays by VW
which he entitled The Death of the Moth. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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... |
Residence | Virginia Woolf | 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. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 323 Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 227 |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf
edited a one-volume selection from VW
's diaries as A Writer's Diary, issued by the Hogarth Press
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
Health | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf
began keeping a daily record of VW
's health; he also continued his consultation with physicians about whether she should bear children. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 26 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Early members of what VW
called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen
, Leonard Woolf
, Clive Bell
, E. M. Forster
,... |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | Her letter of withdrawal, written very soon before her suicide, dismissed her own work as silly and trivial (which, however, was not very different from the dismissive judgements she was accustomed to deliver on her... |
Residence | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf
, E. M. Forster
, and Lytton Strachey
, the economic theories of Maynard Keynes |
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... |
Residence | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
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