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27 de jun. de 2024 · Leonard Woolf dined with them in November 1904, just before sailing to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to become a colonial administrator. Soon the Stephens hosted weekly gatherings of radical young people, including Clive Bell , Lytton Strachey , and John Maynard Keynes , all later to achieve fame as, respectively, an art critic, a biographer, and an economist.
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. He was born in London to a father who was a successful barrister but whose early death left the family in economic difficulty.
14 de nov. de 2006 · Victoria Glendinning's Leonard Woolf is a major achievement -- a shrewdly perceptive and lively portrait of a complex man of extremes and contradictions in whom passion fought with reason and whose far-reaching influence is long overdue for the full appreciation Glendinning offers in this important book.
16 de abr. de 2023 · The Memoir Club (1943) is Bell’s work depicting many members of the Bloomsbury group including Duncan Grant, Leonard Woolf, herself, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Sir Desmond MacCarthy, and E.M. Forster. This stunning depiction of the group’s dynamic also includes real-life portraits painted by Duncan Grant and herself.
Después de casarse Leonard comenzó a escribir y publicó su primera novela, La aldea en la jungla, en 1913. A partir de 1916 comenzó a desarrollarse en el campo de la política y la sociología y entró a formar parte del Partido Laborista y la Fabian Society. Woolf aceptó un doctorado honorario de la Universidad de Sussex en 1964 y un año ...
27 de oct. de 2023 · Dreißig Jahre lebten Virginia und Leonard Woolf zusammen. Sie waren 1905 bei der Gründung der später legendären Bloomsbury Group dabei, zu der Intellektuelle wie der Maler Roger Fry, der ...
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