When Leonard Woolf first laid eyes on his future wife, she was a vision in white -- resplendent in a summery dress, large hat and parasol. It was 1903, and Virginia Stephen and her sister were up at ...

Behind every successful woman, is there a good man? Turned into an assertion, that thought could be chiseled, after the dates of birth (1880) and death (1969), on the tombstone of Leonard Woolf-for ...

Last Sunday I wrote about Leonard Woolf and quoted from his second autobiographical volume Growing which covers the period 1904 to 1911, which he spent as a civil servant in Ceylon. My article was ...

You’re a smart Jew. You go to a prestige college and hang out with a bunch of cool gentile guys. You’re a smart Jew. You go to a prestige college and hang out with a bunch of cool gentile guys. One of ...

WRITING THE LIFE story of an accomplished author and biographer is daunting enough. In the case of Virginia Woolf, that fear is amplified by the fact that she herself spoke so clearly of what made a ...

Now the Richmond, U.K., home where she made her own sanctuary is on the market for £3.5 million (US$4.3 million), according to Savills, which listed the property at the beginning of the month. The ...

Publishers Weekly: Although Leonard Woolf (1880--1969) was a seminal figure in the Bloomsbury set, he is known today primarily as the devoted caregiver of his wife, Virginia. That his life and career ...

Although Leonard Woolf (1880– 1969) was a seminal figure in the Bloomsbury set, he is known today primarily as the devoted caregiver of his wife, Virginia. That his life and career encompassed ...