#leonard woolf

[essayisms]

During this peculiar September heatwave we are having, I made the pilgrimage to Virginia and Leonard Woolf's house in Sussex.

[litafficionado]

-Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Leonard Woolf dt. 1st May 1912, on their impending marriage

[garadinervi]

Two Stories, written and printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Publication No. 1, The Hogarth Press, Paradise Road, Richmond, London, 1917 [British Library, London. © The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf]

[backjustforberena]

EVE BEST & GUY HENRY as  VANESSA BELL & LEONARD WOOLF  in “Life In Squares” - thanks to @evebestonline for the footage.  

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Taken in Warsaw (Michael Courtney) (Thanks Rosalba Courtney)

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 I will end… with a little scene that took place in the last months of peace. They were the most terrible months of my life, for, helplessly and hopelessly, one watched the inevitable approach of war. One of the most horrible things at that time was to listen on the wireless to the speeches of Hitler—the savage and insane ravings of a vindictive underdog who suddenly saw himself to be all-powerful. We were in Rodmell during the late summer of 1939, and I used to listen to those ranting, raving speeches. One afternoon I was planting in the orchard under an apple-tree iris reticulata, those lovely violet flowers… Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: “Hitler is making a speech.” I shouted back, “I shan’t come. I’m planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead.” Last March, twenty-one years after Hitler committed suicide in the bunker, a few of those violet flowers still flowered under the apple-tree in the orchard. 

Leonard Woolf, Downhill All The Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939

[hekate-writes]

Dearest,

I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

- Virginia Woolf's Suicide Note, Addressed to her husband Leonard Woolf.

[a-very-smooth-boltzmann-brain]

Virginia Woolf .1

[white-shape]

Monk's House, Rodmell

Virginia and Leonard Woolf's country side house from 1919.

[theodoradove]

Mitz, the pet marmoset of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1935.

[marcogiovenale]

dal 26 ottobre, a palazzo altemps: "virginia woolf e bloomsbury. inventing life"

dal 26 ottobre, a palazzo altemps: “virginia woolf e bloomsbury. inventing life”

Dal 26 ottobre 2022 al 12 febbraio 2023 arriva al Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Altemps la mostra “Virginia Woolf e Bloomsbury. Inventing Life”.info https://www.museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it e https://www.electa.itPer la prima volta in Italia una mostra celebra lo spirito che animò Bloomsbury: il luogo dove si sono sperimentate forme di vita e di pensiero nuove che cambiarono i…

[litafficionado]

“He admitted to a generally pessimistic view of human nature and a profound, almost mystical love and respect for animals, the young of which he found more sympathetically appealing than most human beings.” -Jane Dunn on Leonard Woolf, from Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy

[iknowpuff]

May 1st, 1912

"And yet, your caring for me overwhelms me. It is so real, and so strange. Why should you? What am I really except a pleasant attractive creature?"

-Virginia Woolf in a letter to Leonard Woolf after he proposed to her.

[queerographies]

[Il giardino di Bloombsbury][Mario Fortunato]

Amicizia, Arte e Tempo: Il Romantico Mosaico di Bloomsbury a Charleston Titolo: Il giardino di BloombsburyScritto da: Mario FortunatoEdito da: BompianiAnno: 2024Pagine: 224ISBN: 9788830103191 La sinossi di Il giardino di Bloombsbury di Mario Fortunato Virginia, Nessa, Leonard, Duncan, Quentin. E poi Maynard, Bunny, Carrington, Lytton. Mariti e mogli, amanti e ancora amanti. Ma soprattutto…

[internatlvelvet]

Bloomsbury Group: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Adrain Stephen, Julian Bell, Raymond Mortimer, Angelica Bell, Jack Hutchinson, Vanessa Bell ... 8 Fitzroy Street, January, 1930 Alice in Wonderland Fancy Dress Party.

January 1930

[valkyrieland]

1940

Sunday, February 11th. Is the best poetry that which is most suggestive- is it made of the fusion of many different ideas, so that it says more than is explicable? L. saw a grey heraldic bird; I only saw my thoughts.

[the-blue-fairie]

Virginia to Leonard, May 1st [1912]

I think about this a lot...