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Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | The eldest of Julia's children from her first marriage, George Duckworth
(1868-1934), was ten when his mother married VW
's father. He grew into a conservative young man and a social climber. After Julia's death... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | Many people of consequence attended these gatherings, including Alfred Lyttelton
, Sydney Buxton
, the Hon. William Peel
, George Duckworth
, Lord Brownlow
, Henry Wheatley
, Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
and the Duke
and Duchess of Bedford
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 188 |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Stephen
(later VW
) drafted in an early notebook a fragmentary novel satirising her half-brother George Duckworth
's attempts to woo an aristocratic bride. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 150 |
Violence | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Stephen
endured the sexual aggression of her half-brother George Duckworth
. After returning from the fashionable balls and parties he escorted her to, he would pursue her into her bedroom and fondle her. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 153-4 Woolf, Virginia. Moments of Being. Schulkind, JeanneEditor , Chatto and Windus for Sussex University Press, 1976. 133 |
Violence | Virginia Woolf | As Virginia Stephen
's father
was dying, Virginia's half-brother George Duckworth
fondled her several times in a manner that amounted to sexual assault. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989. 3 |
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