Leonard Woolf (1880–1969)
Author of The Wise Virgins
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Works by Leonard Woolf
Hunting the Highbrow 2 copies
Co-operation and the war 1 copy
Economic imperialism 1 copy
Sowing: an autobiography of the years 1880-1904, Growing (1904-1911) and Beginning Again (1911-1918) 1 copy
The International Review 1 copy
Two Stories 1 copy
The future of Constantinople 1 copy
The International who's who 1 copy
The League and Abyssinia 1 copy
Works of Leonard Woolf 1 copy
Essays 1 copy
In Savage Times : Leonard Woolf on Peace and War : Containing four pamphlets by Leonard Woolf (The Garland Library of… (1973) 1 copy
The History of the Times 1 copy
The future of the League of nations : the record of a series of discussions held at Chatham house 1 copy
The Colonial empire 1 copy
Ceylon : a study of the "Report of the Special Commission on the Constitution" (cmd. 3131 of 1928) 1 copy
The Way of Peace 1 copy
Socialism and Co-Operation 1 copy
Mandates and empire 1 copy
La muerte de Virginia Woolf 1 copy
Associated Works
The Letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfiel, Volumes I and II (1929) — Contributor — 8 copies
The London mercury — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Woolf, Leonard Sidney
- Birthdate
- 1880-11-25
- Date of death
- 1969-08-14
- Burial location
- Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex, England, UK
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Place of death
- Rodmell, Sussex, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Kandy, Ceylon
Rodmell, Sussex, England, UK - Education
- University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
St Paul's School - Occupations
- civil servant
publisher (The Hogarth Press)
writer
autobiographer
political theorist
journalist (show all 7)
diarist - Relationships
- Woolf, Virginia (wife)
Bell, Vanessa (sister-in-law)
Bell, Clive (brother-in-law)
Stephen, Leslie (father-in-law)
Garnett, Angelica (niece)
Bell, Julian (nephew) (show all 9)
Bell, Quentin (nephew)
Nicholson, Virginia (great-niece)
Woolf, Cecil (nephew) - Organizations
- Bloomsbury Group
Cambridge Apostles
Hogarth Press - Short biography
- Leonard Woolf was born in London to an Anglo-Jewish family. His father was a barrister and Queen's Counsel. Woolf attended Arlington House School near Brighton, and St. Paul's School, London. In 1899, he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge University. There he was elected to membership in the undergraduate society known as the "Cambridge Apostles," whose other members included Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, and Bertrand Russell. Woolf received his bachelor's degree in 1902 but stayed for another year to study for the civil service exams. In 1904, he went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as a cadet, and by 1908 was named an assistant government agent in the Southern Province. He returned to England in 1911 for a year's leave. The next year he married Virginia Stephen, who became famous as Virginia Woolf, and left the civil service. The couple helped found the Bloomsbury Group of artists and writers. Leonard became an influential political theorist, writer, and (with Virginia) publisher of the Hogarth Press. Woolf wrote for several left-wing and internationalist journals and his efforts helped to lay the foundations of the policy of the League of Nations and the United Nations, and of the welfare state. His best-known published work is probably his autobiography in numerous volumes.
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