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In 2013, Woolf was honoured by her alma mater King's College London with the opening of the Virginia Woolf Building on Kingsway, [259] together with an exhibit depicting her accompanied by the quotation "London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem" from her 1926 diary. [260]
Gerald and his elder brother George were later accused by Virginia and Vanessa of sexually abusing them when they were children and teenagers. [1] [2] Woolf published her first two novels with her brother's help, before forming the Hogarth Press. Gerald Duckworth was educated at Eton College and Clare College, Cambridge. [3]
Between 1986 and 1994, McNeillie was the editor of the first four volumes of The Essays of Virginia Woolf, published as the critical edition by Hogarth Press (the sixth and final volume being issued in 2011). [3] He was the Literature Editor of Oxford University Press between 2004 and 2009. [4]
Both sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf later accused their two Duckworth half-brothers of sexually abusing them for many years as children and adolescents. [1] Duckworth was educated at Eton, where in 1886 he was a member of the First XI for cricket, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. [2] [3]
Vanessa Stephen was the elder daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth. [1] The family included her sister Virginia, brothers Thoby (1880–1906) and Adrian (1883–1948), half-sister Laura (1870–1945) whose mother was Harriett Thackeray and half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth; they lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London.
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Ernest Paul Lehman [1] (December 8, 1915 – July 2, 2005) was an American screenwriter and film producer. [2] He was nominated six times for Academy Awards for his screenplays during his career, but did not win. [2]
Giles Lytton Strachey (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ l z ˈ l ɪ t ən ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; [1] 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.