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Woolf, Leonard ___ 1880-1969 ___ British
___ civilservant, writer
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Leonard Sidney Woolf was the third
of ten children. When his father died in 1892, Woolf was sent to board at
Arlington House, a preparatory school near Brighton. Thereafter he was educated
at St Paul's and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he joined a group of
writers and intellectuals - including Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey
and E M Forster - who called themselves The Apostles. For several years,
before marrying Virginia, Woolf worked as a British colonial civil servant
in Ceylon. He opposed Britain's involvement in the First World War, and,
having been rejected for military service on health grounds, began to focus
increasingly on politics and sociology. Settled in Gordon Square, Sydney
and Virginia Woolf formed the focus of the Bloomsbury Group, which included
many of The Apostles. Together they set up Hogarth Press, with Leonard as
the main director, a position he retained until his death in 1969. His main
work, however, was as a political writer and editor. He also spent much
time caring for his wife, through her bouts of manic depression. After Virginia's
death, he fell in love with a married woman called Trekkie, an artist. The
unusual relationship lasted a quarter of a century, with Trekkie living
partly with her husband and partly with Leonard. In terms of diaries, Woolf
is probably better remembered for being the editor of his wife's journal,
but the Hogarth Press also published his own diaries written during his
time in Ceylon.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1908-1911 ___ literary travel SriLanka
WEB TEXT LINKS
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
University
of Sussex Library - Special Collections
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Diaries in Ceylon, 1908-1911
May 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |