Author and publisher. Born Leonard Sidney Woolf in Kensington. After working in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Civil Service, he returned to Britain where he met and married Virginia Stephen. Together they were influential in the Bloomsbury Group and founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. Died at Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex.
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Leonard Woolf
Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least...
Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941, Leonard Woolf, 1880 - 1969, writers and publishe...
In this house Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived, 1915 - 1924, and founded the ...
Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941, Leonard Woolf, 1880 - 1969, writers and publishe...
We have not followed all the various Sri Lankan lines of research opened up b...
Physician, political theorist, scientist, radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. Murdered in his bath by Charlotte Corday.
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Medicine, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, France, Switzerland
Publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It grew from a hobby to become a business, publishing the works of the members of the Bloomsbury Group and books on psychoanalysis and foreig...
Ray Stannard Baker (also known by his pen name David Grayson) was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and writer.
Editor of The Times 1967-81. Also High Sheriff of Somerset in the late 1970s. Chairman of the Arts Council in the 1980s. Vice-Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors. In 1988 he became Baron Rees-Mo...
Born Trinidad. Moved to New York where she became a Communist. Caught up in the McCarthy trials she was imprisoned and then extradited to Britain in December 1955. Became a community organiser afte...
Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands, USA
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