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Leonard Woolf
Bust of Leonard Woolf at Monk's House
Born
Leonard Sidney Woolf

(1880-11-25)25 November 1880
London, England
Died14 August 1969(1969-08-14) (aged 88)
Rodmell, England
NationalityBritish
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant
Spouse
Virginia Woolf
(m. 1912; d. 1941)
PartnerTrekkie Parsons
RelativesBella Sidney Woolf (sister)

Leonard Sidney Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; (1880-11-25)25 November 1880 – (1969-08-14)14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels.[1] A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. Leonard and Virginia did not have any children.

  1. ^ Glendinning, Victorira (2006). Leonard Woolf: A Biography. New York, America: Simon and Schuster. pp. 2004–205. ISBN 9780743220309.

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The Political Quarterly

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political science that first appeared from 1914 to 1916 and was revived by Leonard Woolf, Kingsley Martin, and William A. Robson in 1930. Its editors-in-chief...

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