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Leonard Sidney Woolf (/ ˈ w ʊ l f /; () 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.
Oct 28, 2020 · 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 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.
Born in London in 1880, Leonard Woolf was a writer, editor and journalist, active in the Labour Party and Fabian Society, with a strong commitment to peace and social justice. He supported independence for India and (then) Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1920s.
"Leonard Woolf" published on by null. (1880–1969),author, Fabian, and social reformer, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Apostles. He entered the colonial service and in 1904 went to Ceylon, which was to form the background for his first novel, The Village in the Jungle (1913); it was followed by The Wise ...
Dec 14, 2018 · Virginia Stephen first met Leonard Woolf while visiting her brother Thoby at Trinity College at Cambridge in 1900. She wore a white dress and carried a parasol, looking like “the most Victorian of Victorian young ladies,” as Leonard described her.
Nov 28, 2023 · Leonard Woolf was a significant figure in twentieth-century Britain: a writer, publisher, political theorist, founder of the League of Nations and advisor to the Labour Party and the Fabian Society. He was also a founding member of the legendary Bloomsbury Group, a circle of artists, writers, free-thinkers and friends.
Leonard Sidney Woolf was born in Kensington, London, to Sidney Woolf QC and Marie de Jongh. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he befriended Saxon Sydney-Turner, Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell , and Thoby Stephen (son of Sir Leslie Stephen, brother of Virginia and Vanessa).
Leonard Woolf was one of the most prolific writers on international relations in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. In common with most thinkers of the time he is universally regarded as a utopian.
