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Leonard Sidney Woolf (/ ˈ w ʊ l f /; () 25 November 1880 – () 14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf . As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society , Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. [ 1 ]
Leonard Woolf worked for the British Ceylon Civil Service in Sri Lanka for seven years after graduating from Cambridge University in 1904. In Cambridge Woolf had met and befriended members of the Bloomsbury Group. [1] He became Assistant Government Agent in Hambantota District, dealing with a variety of administrative and judicial issues. The ...
Stephen John Dillane (/ d ɪ ˈ l eɪ n /; [1] born 27 March 1957) [2] is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours, Stannis Baratheon in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2015) and Thomas Jefferson in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), a part which earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination. [3]
Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. It was published shortly after her death in 1941. Although the manuscript had been completed, Woolf had yet to make final revisions. The book describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a play at a festival in a small English village, just before the outbreak of the Second World ...
The Hogarth Press is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that was founded as an independent company in 1917 by British authors Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond (then in Surrey and now in London ), in which they began hand-printing books as a hobby during the interwar period .
Leonard Woolf and his wife Virginia Woolf in 1912. Bloomsbury reacted against current upper class English social rituals, "the bourgeois habits ... the conventions of Victorian life" [23] with their emphasis on public achievement, in favour of a more informal and private focus on personal relationships and individual pleasure. E. M.
Monk's House is a 16th-century weatherboarded cottage in the village of Rodmell, three miles (4.8 km) south of Lewes, East Sussex, England.The writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, the political activist, journalist and editor Leonard Woolf, bought the house by auction at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, on 1 July 1919 for 700 pounds, and received there many visitors connected to the Bloomsbury ...
The Political Quarterly is an academic journal of political science that first appeared from 1914 to 1916 [1] and was revived by Leonard Woolf, Kingsley Martin, and William A. Robson in 1930. [2] Its editors-in-chief are Ben Jackson ( University of Oxford ) and Deborah Mabbett ( Birkbeck University of London ), who assumed their posts in 2016.