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...
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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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.
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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. Editor Schulkind, Jeanne, 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.