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Levenathal, Fred.
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Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969.
Political scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Socialists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Bloomsbury group.
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Levenathal, Fred.
Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969.
Political scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Socialists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Bloomsbury group.
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Leonard Woolf : Bloomsbury socialist /
Fred
Levenathal
and Peter Stansky.
by
Levenathal
,
Fred
.
Oxford University Press, 2019.
Call #:
320.092 W913L
Subjects
Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969.
Political scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Socialists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Bloomsbury group.
Series
Spiritual lives (Oxford University Press)
ISBN:
9780198814146 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xviii, 213 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.
Summary:
"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 the0celebrated 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 the0course 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."--Publisher.
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