Search results
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]
Apr 17, 2024 · In full: Leonard Sidney Woolf. Born: Nov. 25, 1880, London. Died: Aug. 14, 1969, Rodmell, Sussex, Eng. (aged 88) Notable Family Members: spouse Virginia Woolf. 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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Woolf, Leonard Sidney ( 1880–1969 ), author and publisher, was born on 25 November 1880 in Kensington, London, the third of ten children of Sidney Woolf QC (1844–1892) and his wife, Marie de Jongh (1848–1939). He was brought up in Reform Judaism, became an atheist in his teens, and remained sceptical about the religious temperament.
Dec 10, 2006 · Born in November 1880, to Marie de Jongh and Sidney Woolf, Leonard was the third of nine siblings (a 10th child died in infancy). The family was solidly bourgeois, Jewish but not religious,...
- Claire Messud
Date of death: 14 Aug 1969. Location of death: Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex. About: Leonard Sidney Woolf was born in Kensington, London, to Sidney Woolf QC and Marie de Jongh. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he befriended Saxon Sydney-Turner, Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, and Thoby Stephen (son of Sir Leslie Stephen, brother of ...
Dec 10, 2006 · Leonard's father, Sidney, was the second youngest of the ten children of Benjamin Woolf and his wife Isabella (nÈe Phillips), both born in London in the first decade of the nineteenth century.
Leonard Sidney Woolf. (1880-1969), Writer and publisher. Sitter in 9 portraits. Writer, editor, publisher and political worker. A member of the Apostles while at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was introduced by Thoby Stephen to his sisters, Vanessa (later Bell) and Virginia, whom he married in 1912.
Related searches
