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Person    | Male  Born 25/11/1880  Died 14/8/1969

Leonard Woolf

Categories: Journalism / Publishing, Literature

Countries: Sri Lanka

Leonard Woolf

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.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Leonard Woolf

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Bloomsbury Group - Brunswick Square

Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least...

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Leonard and Virginia Woolf

In this house Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived, 1915 - 1924, and founded the ...

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Leonard Woolf's Ceylon

We have not followed all the various Sri Lankan lines of research opened up b...

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Virginia & Leonard Woolf - Tavistock Square

Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941, Leonard Woolf, 1880 - 1969, writers and publishe...

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