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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]
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 and political life and thought more by his personality than by any one achievement.
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Oct 28, 2020 · By Beth Kephart. October 28, 2020. There are so many takes on the Virginia-Leonard Woolf story that they could consume “Modern Love” for a year. Leonard was androgynous and Virginia preferred women, and yet they married. Leonard was a caretaker and Virginia was fragile, and so they stayed together, she stayed, for the longest time, alive.
Leonard Sidney Woolf (Kensington, 25 novembre 1880 – Rodmell 14 août 1969) est un éditeur, journaliste, militant politique et écrivain britannique, fondateur de la Hogarth Press et directeur de plusieurs revues. Époux de Virginia Woolf, il a été l'un des fondateurs du mouvement intellectuel du Bloomsbury Group.
Leonard Woolf was a Jew, a socialist and an anti-imperialist who began life as a colonial administrator. He was a polemical author and journalist campaigning for collective security as the only way to prevent wards, and his work was instrumental in the drawing up of the League of Nations charter.
Dec 10, 2006 · Leonard Woolf led an exemplary life, rich in spite of its adversities (in addition to Virginia, two of his siblings and a sister-in-law committed suicide, and another sister was mentally...
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Dec 3, 2010 · An account of the life and career of the Bloomsbury political intellectual and husband of Virginia Woolf covers his comfortable Jewish childhood, role in inspiring the League of Nations, and relationships with such figures as E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot.
