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Leonard Woolf
Standard Name: Woolf, Leonard
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Rosamond Lehmann | Leonard Woolf
(in the The Nation and Athenæum on 10 September 1927), Desmond MacCarthy
, Arnold Bennett
, and Rose Macaulay
all had more or less serious reservations about the book: Macaulay used very readable... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | Forster
himself clearly did not like her treatment of him. To Leonard Woolf
, the publisher, he said it was not a good book: tactful, gratifying, and in a sense intelligent, but tamely conceived and... |
| Literary responses | T. S. Eliot | A Times Literary Supplement review which considered both this volume and John Middleton Murry
's The Critic in Judgment; or, Belshazzar of Baronscourt (also a Hogarth Press
volume) found Murry facile but Eliot impoverished by... |
| Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | D. H. Lawrence
blamed LCA
's class-consciousness on the basis of her diaries. |
| Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | After Mansfield's death, Woolf
wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it. qtd. in Gunn, Kirsty. “How the Laundry Basket Squeaked”. London Review of Books, Vol. 35 , No. 7, 12 Apr. 2013, pp. 25-6. 25 |
| Literary responses | Stella Gibbons | SG
's Cold Comfort Farm won the Prix Femina Vie-Heureuse, worth forty pounds (as Webb
's Precious Bane had done only seven years previously). Gibbons's award was presented in June 1934. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 5: 303-4 and 303n1 |
| Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | Not surprisingly, the article came under attack from many directions. Dame Ethel Smyth
responded in the next issue of the Sunday Times: It surprises me that so brilliant an intelligence should not remember that... |
| Literary responses | Radclyffe Hall | The initial reviews of The Well treated it with respect and found nothing to offend. The Times Literary Supplement called it sincere, courageous, high-minded and often beautifully expressed. qtd. in Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 241 |
| Literary responses | Radclyffe Hall | A number of writers rallied in support of RH
. E. M. Forster
and Leonard Woolf
drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw
, T. S. Eliot |
| Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | Leonard Woolf
thought this VSW
's best poem. Her lovers or ex-lovers were upset at the sentiments quoted above. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 296-7 |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Leonard Woolf
was for him, rather impressed with this sequence; Virginia
said she approved of Wellesley's having decided to write about cats and rocks, instead of the birth of man. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 4: 198 |
| Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | Leonard Woolf
thought this VSW
's best novel. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 237 |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | In September 1917, HSW
agreed to serialize James Joyce's Ulysses in The Egoist, paying him an advance of £50. But when her printers, the Complete Press
saw the first episode (Telemachus) they... |
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