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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 ]
The characters of Viola and Leonard Anquetil in Family History are socialists, pacifists and feminists, thinly veiled versions of Virginia and Leonard Woolf. [ 23 ] : 212 In Orlando , Woolf allowed Vita to finally "own" Knole, and in Family History , Vita returns the gesture, as the Anquetils have children who turned out to be intelligent and ...
A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together. [1] The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921 : [2] "A Haunted House" "Monday ...
Virginia Woolf (3 C, 5 P, 4 F) Pages in category "Stephen–Bell family" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Leonard Woolf; Virginia Woolf
Sir Leslie Stephen came from a distinguished intellectual family, [1] and was born at a house on Kensington Gore, later 42 Hyde Park Gate, in London, the son of Sir James Stephen and his wife, Jane Catherine (née Venn). [2] His father was Colonial Undersecretary of State and a noted abolitionist. [3]
All three sources have written to Woolf asking for financial donations. What she donates, though, is her advice and philosophy. Woolf was eager to tie the issues of war and feminism together in what she saw as a crucial point in history. She and her husband Leonard had visited both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the early part of the decade. [6]
Adam Nimoy, son of Leonard, has published a memoir that centers on the distance he felt from his father and the quest for reconciliation. We talk with Adam ahead of a double screening and talkback ...
Subscribers included Clive and Julian Bell, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Maynard Keynes, Vita Sackville-West, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Irvine ended the journal in February 1935. [5] In 1934, Irvine married the Cambridge mathematician Max Newman; they had two sons, Edward (born 1935) and William, later a computer scientist (1939). [4]