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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.

Bentley Boys

In March 1930, during the Blue Train Races, Woolf Barnato raised the stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six having raced and beat Le Train Bleu for the first time, to better that record with his 6½ Litre Bentley Speed Six on a bet of GBP100.

Brandon D. Woolf

Woolf was born in 1972 to Dennis and Liz Woolf of Whitney, Idaho, the oldest of five children.

Eadberht of Northumbria

A war between the Picts and the Northumbrians is reported, during which Æthelbald, King of Mercia, took advantage of the absence of Eadberht to ravage his lands The reason for the war is unclear, but Woolf suggests that it was related to the killing of Earnwine.

Fiona Woolf

Woolf attended St Denis School (now part of St Margaret's School), Edinburgh.

George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award

The George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.

Gruoch of Scotland

Woolf, Alex, "Macbeth" in Michael Lynch (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Scottish History. Oxford UP, Oxford, 2001.

Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf

From 29–31 May 2009, Woolf served with Sir William Blair, a High Court Judge, as the Co-Convener of the inaugural Qatar Law Forum of Global Leaders in Law, held in Doha, Qatar.

On 25 February 2007, Woolf was inaugurated as the first President of the Qatar Financial Centre Civil and Commercial Court, in Doha Qatar.

In July 2002, Woolf, together with Mr Justice Curtis and Mr Justice Henriques, refused Barry George's first appeal against his conviction for the murder of Jill Dando.

Herbert M. Woolf

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

Jacob's Room

The work is seen as an important modernist text; its experimental form is viewed as a progression of the innovative writing style Woolf presented in her earlier collection of short fiction titled Monday or Tuesday (1919).

Kingdom of Dublin

Woolf, Alex, "Age of Sea-Kings: 900–1300", in Donald Omand (ed.), The Argyll Book.

Louise DeSalvo

She has edited editions of Woolf's first novel Melymbrosia, as well as The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, which documents the controversial lesbian affair between these two novelists.

Moments of Being

The collection was first found in the papers of her husband, used by Quentin Bell in Woolf's biography, published in 1972.

Momversation

Regular contributors to the Momversation show include Heather Armstrong of the website Dooce, Alice Bradley, Daphne Brogdon, Asha Dornfest, Jessica Gottlieb, Giyen Kim, Dana Loesch, Maggie Mason, Mindy Roberts, Heather Spohr, Karen Walrond, and Rebecca Woolf.

Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers

After retiring from the bench, Phillips followed Lord Woolf as President of the Qatar International Court in Doha.

Orlando: A Biography

A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels.

Phil McMullen

McMullen also founded the semi-annual Terrastock indie rock festivals which have taken place in Britain and North America since 1987, and in 2013 curated the first Woolf Music festival.

Robert Koch Woolf

Robert Koch Woolf, formerly known as Robert Koch (born Temple, Texas, 1923; died Montecito, California, 2004), was an American interior decorator noted for the Hollywood homes he created with architect John Elgin Woolf.

Ruaidhri mac Raghnaill

Woolf has argued that Ruaidhri was the Mac Somhairle who died in this battle, fighting the English at Ballyshannon.

Ruth Jordan

Ruth Woolf Jordan (November 7, 1902 – January 7, 1996) was a schoolteacher from Sedona, Arizona who developed the Jordan Historical Park and the Sedona Heritage Museum with her husband, orchardist Walter Jordan.

The Return of the Soldier

Unlike Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Dorothy L. Sayers' The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, other postwar novels which emphasize the lingering effects of war after despite attempts at reintegration, The Return of the Soldier lends a certain optimism that the soldier can reintegrate back into the society.

The Waves

Percival (partially based on Woolf's brother, Thoby Stephen) is the god-like but morally flawed hero of the other six, who dies midway through the novel on an imperialist quest in British-dominated colonial India.

Uí Ímair

Although their descent from Godred Crovan is through the female line, Alex Woolf believes the Clann Somhairle (Clan Donald and Clan MacDougall) or the Lords of the Isles can be regarded as a "cadet branch" of the Uí Ímair, as they apparently based their claim to the Isles on this descent (according to Woolf).

Vita Sackville-West

Woolf wrote one of her most famous novels, Orlando, described by Sackville-West's son Nigel Nicolson as "the longest and most charming love-letter in literature", as a result of this affair.

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Dominic Hibberd, Wilfrid Gibson and Harold Monro, the Pioneers (Cecil Woolf, 2006)

Woolf Fisher

Sir Woolf Fisher (20 May 1912 – 12 January 1975) was an East Tamaki, New Zealand, businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Fisher & Paykel, a major appliance manufacturing company, and the Ra Ora Stud, an important Thoroughbred racehorse breeding operation.

Woolford Farm

Woolf had hired Ben Jones after he had established a reputation of training and breeding horses at the family ranch in Parnell, Missouri.


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