![]() He declined the offer of Companion of Honour (CH) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 1966. Woolf accepted an honorary doctorate from the then-new University of Sussex in 1964 and in 1965 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1960, Woolf revisited Ceylon and was surprised at the warmth of the welcome he received, and even the fact that he was still remembered. General Election 1922: Combined English Universities (2 seats)Įlectorate: 3,967 Valid: 2,946 Quota: 983 Turnout: 74.3 He was literary editor of The Nation and Athenaeum, generally referred to simply as The Nation, from 1923 to 1930), and joint founder and editor of The Political Quarterly from 1931 to 1959), and for a time he served as secretary of the Labour Party's advisory committees on international and colonial questions. He also edited the international section of the Contemporary Review from 1920 to 1922. In 1919, Woolf became editor of the International Review. Later, Leonard fell in love with a married artist, Trekkie Parsons. His wife suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, until her suicide by drowning in 1941. Woolf continued as the main director of the Press until his death. Within ten years the Press had become a full-scale publishing house, issuing Virginia's novels, Leonard's tracts and, among other works, the first edition of T. Their first project was a pamphlet, hand-printed and bound by themselves. ![]() In 1917, the Woolfs bought a small hand-operated printing press and with it they founded the Hogarth Press. He stood as the Labour candidate for the Combined English Universities in 1922.Īs his wife's mental health worsened, Woolf devoted much of his time to caring for her (he himself suffered from depression). In 1916, he wrote International Government, proposing an international agency to enforce world peace. He joined the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, and became a regular contributor to the New Statesman. On the introduction of conscription in 1916, during the First World War, Woolf was rejected for military service on medical grounds, and turned to politics and sociology. A series of books followed at roughly bi-annual intervals. In December 1917, Woolf became one of the co-founders of the 1917 Club, which met in Gerrard Street, Soho.Īfter marriage, Woolf turned to writing and published his first novel, The Village in the Jungle (1913), which is based on his years in Ceylon. Together, Leonard and Virginia Woolf became influential in the Bloomsbury Group, which also included various other former Apostles. She then bought Monk's House and sold the Round House. The same year, they discovered Monk's House in nearby Rodmell, which both she and Leonard favoured because of its orchard and garden. In 1919, the Woolfs purchased the Round House in Pipe Passage, Lewes, East Sussex. In early March 1915, the couple moved to nearby Hogarth House, Paradise Road. Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived at 17 The Green, Richmond upon Thames, starting from October 1914. Instead, however, he resigned in early 1912 and that same year married Virginia Stephen. Woolf returned to England in May 1911 for a year's leave. In October 1904, Woolf moved to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to become a cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service, in Jaffna and later Kandy, and by August 1908 was named an assistant government agent in the Southern Province, where he administered the District of Hambantota. Woolf was awarded his BA in 1902, but stayed there for another year to study for the Civil Service examinations held then. Thoby Stephen (his future wife's brother) was friendly with the Apostles, though not a member himself. Other contemporary members included Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, G. From 1894 to 1899, he attended St Paul's School, and in 1899 he won a classical scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles. After his father died in 1892, Woolf was sent to board at Arlington House School near Brighton, Sussex. Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh). Leonard and Virginia did not have any children.Įarly life Leonard Woolf and his wife Virginia Woolf in 1912 Government Agent of Anuradhapura District Nissanka Wijeyeratne with Leonard Woolf at Abhayagiri vihāra in 1960 A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. Leonard Sidney Woolf ( / ˈ w ʊ l f/ ( )25 November 1880 – ( )14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant.
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