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Leonard Sidney Woolf ( / ˈwʊlf /; 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 (born Nov. 25, 1880, London—died Aug. 14, 1969, Rodmell, Sussex, Eng.) was a British publisher, political worker, journalist, and internationalist who influenced literary and political life and thought more by his personality than by any one achievement.
Oct 28, 2020 · By Beth Kephart. October 28, 2020. There are so many takes on the Virginia-Leonard Woolf story that they could consume “Modern Love” for a year. Leonard was androgynous and Virginia preferred women, and yet they married. Leonard was a caretaker and Virginia was fragile, and so they stayed together, she stayed, for the longest time, alive.
Dec 14, 2018 · Virginia Stephen first met Leonard Woolf while visiting her brother Thoby at Trinity College at Cambridge in 1900. She wore a white dress and carried a parasol, looking like “the most Victorian of Victorian young ladies,” as Leonard described her.
Leonard Woolf was a Jew, a socialist and an anti-imperialist who began life as a colonial administrator. He was a polemical author and journalist campaigning for collective security as the only way to prevent wards, and his work was instrumental in the drawing up of the League of Nations charter.
Dec 10, 2006 · Leonard Woolf led an exemplary life, rich in spite of its adversities (in addition to Virginia, two of his siblings and a sister-in-law committed suicide, and another sister was...
He wrote on the Co‐operative movement, socialism, imperialism, the League of Nations, and international affairs, was literary editor of the Nation (1923–30), and co‐founder and joint editor of the Political Quarterly (1931–59).
Only a few of the works of Leonard Woolf and even fewer of those of Virginia Woolf came to WSU with their library. However, early in the acquisition process, the decision was made by WSU Libraries to collect all the Woolfs’ works, including all editions of Virginia’s books.
Leonard Sidney Woolf was a noted British political theorist, author, publisher (The Hogarth Press), and civil servant, but perhaps best-known as husband to author Virginia Woolf.
Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist. This is a wide-ranging biography of Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), an important yet somewhat neglected figure in British life. He is in the unusual position of being overshadowed by his wife, Virginia Woolf, and his role in helping her is part of this study.
