Woolf, Leonard

Author(s) Rinaldo P, Sdimidt-Sommerfeld E, Posca AP, Heales SJ, Woolf DA, Leonard... 

Celebrated historic figures like Plato, Aristotle and Bishop Berkeley, unfortunate enough never to attend Cambridge, whether before or after 1820, were granted honorary Apostolic status. So Leonard Woolf could begin another of his Saturday night papers to the Society ... 

Maynard Keynes and a consortium of other Liberals acquired control of the Nation Athenaeum in 1923 Leonard Woolf became the paper s literary editor that year, and remained so down to 1930, when the N A merged with the New Statesman, of which Desmond MacCarthy had been Hterary editor from 1921 to 1927. 

A copy of this paper, dated 14 May 1904, is in the Leonard Woolf Papers (see LWP, II, O), University of Sussex Library, Manuscripts Section. 

This association appears again in her experience of writing The Waves. Leonard Woolf s vague memory in the passage quoted above - she spoke somewhere about the voices that fly ahead - is of a sentence from Woolf s diary in which she describes writing the final pages of The Waves. 

Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf Writer and Personality , in Stape, Virginia Woolf Interviews and Recollections, p. 6. Quentin Bell also refers to this episode in Virginia Woolf A Biography, 1972 (repr. London Hogarth, 1982), vol. i, pp. 89-90. 

Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 18 March 1941, quoted in Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf, ii, p. 226. 

Woolf, Poetry, Fiction and the Future , New York Herald Tribune (14 and 21 August 1927), 4, pp. 428-41. This essay was reprinted by Leonard Woolf as The Narrow Bridge of Art in GR (London Hogarth, 1958) and CE (London Hogarth, 1966-7). 

Leonard Woolf, Quack, Quack (London Hogarth, 1935), p. 130. 

Yet the poHtics of Woolf s essays have taken some time to be fully responded to. In her lifetime, she was highly praised and respected as a sensitive, cultured critic of brilliance and integrity . After her death, her reputation was husbanded by Leonard Woolf s policy of issuing, at regular intervals, a series of selections of her uncollected essays and journalism (and of her stories and diaries) The Death of the Moth (1942), The Moment (1947), The Captain s Death Bed (1950), Granite and Rainbow (1958), Contemporary... 

Virginia Woolf, Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown , in The Captain s Death Bed and Other Essays, ed. Leonard Woolf (New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1950), pp. 94-119 pp. 96,115,117. All further references to Woolf s works are from the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich editions. 

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