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5 unusual facts about Leonard Woolf


Arthur Andrew Cipriani

An abridged version was published as The Case for West Indian Self-Government by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1933.

Bella Sidney Woolf

Bella Sidney Woolf OBE (1877 – 1960) was an English author, sister of author Leonard Woolf and wife, in her second marriage, of Hong Kong colonial secretary and colonial Ceylonese administrator Tom Southorn.

Principia Ethica

Leonard Woolf considered that it offered a way of continuing living in a meaningless world.

Trekkie Parsons

Trekkie (Ritchie) Parsons (15 June 1902 – 24 July 1995) was an English artist and lithographer, perhaps best known as the lover of Leonard Woolf after his wife Virginia's death.

Zahira College, Hambantota

It was founded in 1911 by Leonard Woolf and its first principal and teacher was Rathna Sabapathi.


Dorothy Bussy

Bussy anonymously published one novel, Olivia, in 1949, printed by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, in which lesbian loves get entangled in the emotional and sexually charged atmosphere of erotic pedagogy in a girls' school.

Herbert M. Woolf

Woolf is also a cousin of British political theorist and husband of Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf

Nicholas Stacey

In 1946, he became a member of the post-war reconstruction committee, working with Nicholas Kaldor, Leonard Woolf and Christopher Mayhew.


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