History Today, February 1st, 2007
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 be impressed by his literary ability and intrigued by his personality. In addition, it offers a unique panorama of English intellectual, literary and social life beginning in the heyday of Victorian imperialism and ending in the dissolution of empire. A first biography of Woolf is long overdue, especially given that there have been fr...
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