Though less well known than his wife, Virginia, Leonard Woolf also had a remarkable career. His political education was multifaceted and complete, and despite success in the Ceylon civil service, he became a forceful critic of imperialism and an...
Leonard Sidney Woolf (November 25, 1880 – August 14, 1969) was a noted British political theorist, author, and civil servant, but perhaps now best known as husband to author Virginia...
The large garden at Monk's House, Rodmell, in Sussex, bounded on one side by the village street, and on the other by gently sloping ground towards the River Ouse, was locally famous for its summer brilliance. In August -- the month in which I...
Leonard Woolf A Life Victoria Glendinning Simon and Schuster 530 pp 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 7432 2030 7 ANYONE WHO HAS HAD THE PLEASURE of reading Leonard Woolf's five-volume autobiography, published during the decade before his death in 1969, cannot fail to...
This vision of intermarriage is offered by Commentary in its December issue, in a piece about Leonard and Virginia Woolf (based on the new biography of Leonard by Victoria Glendinning). John Gross writes that Leonard Woolf's marriage was a sham of Jewish self-hatred. Virginia, he...
