Leonard Woolf

The lecture series was launched by distinguished supporters including J. G. Frazer , Sir Arthur Evans , Roger Fry , and Virginia and Leonard Woolf .

Leonard Woolf sorted through ER 's papers after her death. After Octavia Wilberforce died, the papers went to Fales Library at New York University .ER 's stage costumes are in the...

This correspondence was generative on multiple levels. LS lost her manuscript during the tumult of the Sino-Japanese War. Virginia Woolf kept the chapters LS sent to her and when, years after Woolf died, LS arrived...

Eager to return to the excitement of the city after nearly a decade at Hogarth House in Richmond, Virginia and Leonard Woolf purchased a ten-year lease on 52 Tavistock Square, London.

The Inneses moved to Lewes, Sussex, where George was partner in an engineering business. Here they were not too far from Virginia and Leonard Woolf , though there is no evidence that they ever...

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.

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...

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...

While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...

Her first letter to Dear Mrs. Woolf, written on 26 March 1923, was an invitation to join the PEN club . Sackville-West did not yet know Woolf at all well, since she supposed Woolf...

There are three characters in this text: Woolf herself, appearing both in her youth and in maturity; The Man (who represents now her father Leslie Stephen and now her husband Leonard Woolf ); and Woolf's...

Her title makes multiple allusion to disparate other texts. Its first four words are quoted from a poem of aspiration by Christina Rossetti ; the rest of it alludes to E. M. Forster 's semi-disillusioned...

Hermione Lee sees VW 's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality. Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...

Jacob's Room departs sharply from her two earlier novels in both its method and its subject. Leonard Woolf felt on first reading it that Virginia's characters were ghosts or puppets. It is fragmentary, like...

The novel details the literary and romantic triangles among writer Anne Lindell (a sketch to some extent inspired by VT herself), the former lover of aristocrat John Shorne (Sackville-West ), who is having an...