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Leonard Woolf
A Biography
by Victoria Glendinning
ISBN: 0743246535
ISBN-13: 9780743246538
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Though best known as the husband and widower of Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf was a remarkable man of letters himself who wrote five autobiographical works recounting his life as a Jew at Cambridge, an early publisher of T.S. Eliot, and loving husband of his long-suffering wife. Victoria Glendinning's new biography both demonstrates the power and beauty of Woolf's own writing, and saves him from the accusations of patriarchy that have dogged him since his wife's death.
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"Victoria Glendinning's splendid new biography, LEONARD WOOLF...rescue[s] him from ideologues who see Virginia's suicide in 1941 as some sort of patriarchal crime." -- John Leonard
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 2006
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.7 pounds
Pages: 498
Publisher's Notes
An analysis of the Bloomsbury founding member and husband of Virginia Woolf explores the impact of his father's death on his comfortable Jewish childhood, his relationships with such contemporaries as E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot, and the influence of his political theories on the League of Nations.
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New York: Free Press, 2006. Quarter bound in brown cloth. First printing. Clean, crisp and unmarked. 498 pp. Photos. Notes, index. Dust jacket in new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. ( more information) Offered by Turn-The-Page Books (United States)
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Free Press, 2006. Hardcover. Brand New. 9.30 x 6.30 x 1.50. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 27.2 oz. An analysis of the Bloomsbury founding member and husband of Virginia Woolf explores the impact of his father's death on his comfortable Jewish childhood, his relationships with such contemporaries as E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot, and the influence of his political theories on the League of Nations. Though best known as the husband and widower of Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf was a remarkable man of letters himself who wrote five autobiographical works recounting his life as a Jew at Cambridge, an early publisher of T.S. Eliot, and loving husband of his long-suffering wife. Victoria Glendinning's new biography both demonstrates the power and beauty of Woolf's own writing, and saves him from the accusations of patriarchy that have dogged him since his wife's death. Victoria Glendinning's splendid new biography, LEONARD WOOLF...rescue[s] him from ideologues who see Virginia's suicide in 1941 as some sort of patriarchal crime. -- (09/01/2006). . ( more information) Offered by Books and More by the Rowe (United States)
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New York: Free Press, 2006 498 pp., illus., biblio., index; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into previously untapped sources, to write the first full biography of the extraordinary man who was the 'dark star' at the center of the Bloomsbury set, and the definitive portrait of the Woolf marriage. A man of extremes, Leonard Woolf was ferocious and tender, violent and self-restrained, opinionated and nonjudgmental, always an outsider of sorts within the exceptionally intimate, fractious, and sometimes vicious society of brilliant but troubled friends and lovers. He has been portrayed either as Virginia's saintly caretaker or as her oppressor, the substantial range and influence of his own achievements overshadowed by Virginia's fame and the tragedy of her suicide. But Leonard was a pivotal figure of his age, whose fierce intelligence touched the key literary and political events that shaped the early decades of the twentieth century and would resonate into the post-World War II era. Glendinning beautifully evokes Woolf's coming-of-age in turn-of-the-century London. The scholarship boy from a prosperous Jewish family would cut his own path through the world of the British public school, contending with the lingering anti-Semitism of Imperial Age Britain. Immediately upon entering Trinity College, Cambridge, Woolf became one of an intimate group of vivid personalities who would form the core of the Bloomsbury circle: the flamboyant Lytton Strachey; Toby Stephen, 'the Goth,' through whom Leonard would meet Stephen's sister Virginia; and Clive Bell. Glendinning brings to life their long nights of intense discussion of literature and the vicissitudes of sex, and charts Leonard's course as he becomes the lifelong friend of John Maynard Keynes and E. M. Forster. She unearths the crucial influence of Woolf's seven years as a headstrong administrator in colonial Ceylon, where he lost confidence in the imperial mission, deciding to abandon Ceylon in order to marry the psychologically troubled Virginia Stephen. Glendinning limns the true nature of Leonard's devotion to Virginia, revealing through vivid depiction of their unconventional marriage how Leonard supported Virginia through her breakdowns and in her writing. In co-founding with Virginia the Hogarth Press, he provided a secure publisher for Virginia's own boldly experimental works. As the eminence grise of the early Labour Party, working behind the scenes, Woolf became a leading critic of imperialism, and his passionate advocacy of collective security to prevent war underpinned the charter of the League of Nations. After Virginia's death, he continued to forge his own iconoclastic way, engaging in a long and happy relationship with a married woman. Victoria Glendinning's Leonard Woolf is a major achievement -- a shrewdly perceptive and lively portrait of a complex man of extremes and contradictions in whom passion fought with reason and whose far-reaching influence is long overdue for the full appreciation Glendinning offers in this important book." - Publisher.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Left Coast Books (United States)
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