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Leonard Woolf - Bloomsbury Socialist (Hardcover)
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Leonard Woolf - Bloomsbury Socialist (Hardcover)
Series: Spiritual Lives
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Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist is an invaluable biography of
an important if somewhat neglected figure in British cultural and
political life,whose significance has been overshadowed by that of
his wife, Virginia Woolf. His vital role in her life and career is
a central aspect of this incisive study. Born to a prosperous
middle-class Jewish family, he was profoundly affected by the early
death of his father, a prominent barrister and QC, which left his
family in reduced economic circumstances. Fred Leventhal and Peter
Stansky expertly reveal that, despite his youthful loss of
religious faith, being Jewish was as crucial in shaping Woolf's
ideas as the Hellenism he imbibed at St Paul's and Trinity College,
Cambridge. As an undergraduate member of the celebrated elite
Apostles-along with his close friends, Lytton Strachey and John
Maynard Keynes-he played a formative role in what later became the
Bloomsbury Group. He subsequently spent seven years as a colonial
servant in Ceylon, the background to his powerful novel, The
Village in the Jungle. Within a year of his return to England in
1911 he married Virginia Stephen, and in 1917 they founded the
Hogarth Press, an innovative and commercially successful publishing
house. In the course of his long life he wrote prolifically on
international relations, notably on the creation of the League of
Nations, on socialism, and on imperial policy, particularly in
Africa. Throughout this authoritative study,Leventhal and Stansky
illuminate the life, scope, and thought of this seminal figure in
twentieth-century British society.
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