Leonard woolf biography

British author and publisher (1880–1969)

Leonard Sidney Woolf (; (1880-11-25)25 Nov 1880 – (1969-08-14)14 August 1969) was a British political philosopher, author, publisher, and civil domestic servant. He was married to creator Virginia Woolf. As a adherent of the Labour Party very last the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of ruler own work and his wife's novels.

A writer himself, Writer created nineteen individual works cranium wrote six autobiographies. Leonard flourishing Virginia did not have sizeable children.

Early life

Woolf was aboriginal in London in 1880 honesty third of ten children endlessly Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a counsellor and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh).

His consanguinity was Jewish. After his father confessor died in 1892, Woolf was sent to board at City House School near Brighton, Sussex. From 1894 to 1899, fiasco attended St Paul's School, contemporary in 1899 he won systematic classical scholarship to Trinity Academy, Cambridge,^[2] where he was choice to the Cambridge Apostles.

On contemporary members included Lytton Biographer, John Maynard Keynes, G. Attach. Moore, and E. M. Forster. Thoby Stephen (his future wife's brother) was friendly with glory Apostles, though not a participator himself. Woolf was awarded ruler BA in 1902 but stayed there for another year combat study for the Civil Audacity examinations held then.

In Oct 1904, Woolf moved to State (now Sri Lanka) to perceive a cadet in the Island Civil Service, in Jaffna instruct later Kandy,^[3] and by Grave 1908 was named an lesser government agent in the Austral Province, where he administered goodness District of Hambantota. Woolf complementary to England in May 1911 for a year's leave.

On the other hand, however, he resigned in apparent 1912 and that same origin married Virginia Stephen.

Leonard innermost Virginia Woolf lived at 17 The Green, Richmond upon River, starting from October 1914. Reside in early March 1915, the confederate moved to nearby Hogarth Abode, Paradise Road.^[4]

In 1919, the Woolfs purchased the Round House make happen Pipe Passage, Lewes, East Sussex.

The same year, they ascertained Monk's House in nearby Rodmell, which both she and Writer favoured because of its plantation and garden. She then mercenary Monk's House and sold primacy Round House.^[5]

Together, Leonard and Colony Woolf became influential in glory Bloomsbury Group, which also star various other former Apostles.

In December 1917, Woolf became suggestion of the co-founders of dignity 1917 Club, which met attach Gerrard Street, Soho.

Writing

After wedlock, Woolf turned to writing survive published his first novel, The Village in the Jungle (1913), which is based on consummate years in Ceylon. A lean-to of books followed at completely bi-annual intervals.

On the commencement of conscription in 1916, meanwhile the First World War, Author was rejected for military usefulness on medical grounds and upturned to politics and sociology. Sand joined the Labour Party last the Fabian Society, and became a regular contributor to rendering New Statesman. In 1916, without fear wrote International Government, proposing in particular international agency to enforce universe peace.

He stood as honourableness Labour candidate for the Sorbed English Universities in 1922.

As his wife's mental health go downhill, Woolf devoted much of top time to caring for supplementary (he himself suffered from depression). In 1917, the Woolfs avaricious a small hand-operated printing appear and with it, they supported the Hogarth Press.

Their foremost project was a pamphlet, hand-printed and bound by themselves. By nature ten years the Press esoteric become a full-scale publishing demonstrate, issuing Virginia's novels, Leonard's tracts and, among other works, prestige first edition of T. Cruel. Eliot's The Waste Land. Author continued as the main official of the Press until dominion death.

His wife suffered newcomer disabuse of severe bouts of mental sickness throughout her life, until accumulate suicide by drowning in 1941. Later, Leonard fell in liking with a married artist, Trekkie Parsons.

In 1919, Woolf became editor of the International Review. He also edited the general section of the Contemporary Review from 1920 to 1922.

Pacify was literary editor of The Nation and Athenaeum (generally referred to simply as The Nation) from 1923 to 1930, tube joint founder and editor pick up the check The Political Quarterly from 1931 to 1959, and for spick time he served as lady of the press of the Labour Party's par‘netical committees on international and magnificent questions.

In 1960, Woolf revisited Ceylon and was surprised fall back the warmth of the pleasant he received, and even representation fact that he was immobilize remembered.^[6] Woolf accepted an discretional doctorate from the then-new Code of practice of Sussex in 1964 esoteric in 1965 he was determine a Fellow of the Regal Society of Literature.

He declined the offer of Companion carefulness Honour (CH) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 1966.^[7]

Family

Among his nine siblings, Bella Writer was also an author. Crown brother Cecil Nathan Sidney Writer was the author of Poems (published 1918); Cecil was stick in World War I expect 1917.

His dissertation Bartolus dying Sassoferrato, his Position in dignity History of Medieval Political Thought was expanded to a tome published by Cambridge University Break open in 1913 in collaboration succeed his brother Philip. Philip significant Cecil also translated Stendhal's On Love (Duckworth, 1915).^[8]

Death

Woolf died compute 14 August 1969 from nifty stroke.

He was cremated at an earlier time his ashes were buried complementary his wife's beneath an go one better than tree in his beloved recreation ground at Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex. The tree subsequently blew depart and Woolf's remains have in that been marked by a bronzed bust.

His papers are kept by the University of Sussex at the Falmer campus.

Works

• The Village in the Jungle – 1913
• The Wise Virgins – 1914 (Republished in 2003 by Kore Books)
• International Government – 1916
• The Vanguard of Constantinople – 1917
• The Frame of a Lasting Peace - 1917
• Cooperation and the Future become aware of Industry – 1918
• Economic Imperialism – 1920
• Empire and Commerce in Africa – 1920
• Socialism and Co-operation – 1921
• International co-operative trade – 1922
• Fear and Politics – 1925
• Essays profession Literature, History, Politics – 1927
• Hunting the Highbrow – 1927
• Imperialism stand for Civilization – 1928
• After the Deluge (Principia Politica), 3 vols.

  – 1931, 1939, 1953

• Quack! Quack! – 1935
• Barbarians at the Gate – 1939
• The War for Peace – 1940
• A Calendar of Consolation – selected by Leonard Woolf, 1967

Autobiographical works

• Woolf, Leonard (1960). Sowing: Trivial Autobiography of the Years 1880–1904.

  London: Hogarth Press. OCLC 185524636. Accessible in America as Woolf, Author (1960). Sowing: An Autobiography look after the Years 1880–1904 (1st American ed.). New York: Harcourt, Brace. ISBN . OCLC 1346957. Also OCLC 1339821.

• Woolf, Leonard (1961). Growing: An Autobiography of honesty Years 1904–1911 (1st American ed.).

  Latest York: Harcourt, Brace & False. OCLC 494500. Also OCLC 21246847 (1977), OCLC 67527334 (1967), Eland (2015).

• Woolf, Leonard (1963). Diaries in Ceylon, 1908–1911, beginning Stories from the East: Rolls museum of a Colonial Administrator. London: Hogarth Press. OCLC 30240642. Also OCLC 4194108
• Woolf, Leonard (1975) [1964].

  Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Adulthood 1911 to 1918. Harcourt Road Jovanovich. ISBN .

• Woolf, Leonard (1967). Downhill All the Way: An Life of the Years 1919–1939 (1st American ed.). New York: Harcourt, Clench & World. OCLC 1065888.
• Woolf, Leonard (1969).

  The Journey Not the Appearance Matters: An Autobiography of honourableness Years 1939–1969. London: Hogarth Test. ISBN . OCLC 186031338. Published in Ground as Woolf, Leonard (1969). The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Seniority 1939–1969 (1st American ed.).

  Life

  New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. OCLC 58615.

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