Violet Dickinson

Violet Dickinson , who became a close friend of the young Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), was EE 's great-niece.

Virginia did not break down over this bereavement, but became a source of strength to others. Because Violet Dickinson was also ill with typhoid, it was thought necessary to conceal Thoby's death from her, and...

Virginia's tutor Janet Case became her lifelong friend. In her late teens she had an array of female friends of ten to twenty years older than herself: Violet Dickinson , philanthropic Quaker, Kitty Maxse

Soon KG 's illustrations started to attract the attention of established writers and critics, with some of whom she forged friendships. For example, the poet Frederick Locker-Lampson admired the child-like sentiments expressed in her work...

Shortly after the death of her father in May 1904, Virginia Stephen experienced a second and more serious nervous breakdown. She was nursed for nearly three months at the home of her friend Violet Dickinson

KG was driven by a strong work ethic. Woman's Life reported her as devoting her life to her work. Miss Greenaway is an indefatigable worker, and has been ever since she first seriously handled a...

Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa , Clive Bell

KG discussed her creative frustrations in a letter to her friend Violet Dickinson in 1896. She believed her writing had potential but required more development. I do mean to try and do a little more...

Violet Dickinson edited a volume of Emily Eden 's familiar Letters.

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

Virginia and Vanessa Stephen (later Woolf and Bell) and Violet Dickinson left England for Greece, where at Olympia on 13 September they met up with Thoby and Adrian Stephen .