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Malcolm Fraser's mother, Una Woolf, was of Jewish descent on her own father's side.
Virginia Woolf used it, citing Thackeray, in her 1929 essay A Room of One's Own.
" In her much reprinted essay " Science Fiction and Mrs Brown ," the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin has approached an answer by first citing the essay written by the English author Virginia Woolf entitled " Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown " in which she states:
Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins – the latter of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf.
In her novel Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), Woolf bases the character of Rezia Warren Smith on Lopokova.
In 1915 Virginia Woolf brought out her first novel, The Voyage Out.
Many of the ensuing memoirs, such as Virginia Woolf on her Hyde Park Gate home and Maynard Keynes on his early beliefs, are ironic in ways not always recognized by later commentators.
Virginia Woolf was writing and publishing her most widely-read modernist novels and essays, E. M. Forster completed A Passage to India which remains the most highly regarded novel on British imperialism in India.
Virginia Woolf wrote Fry ’ s biography but with the coming of war again her mental instability recurred, and she drowned herself in 1941.
Virginia Woolf published her radical feminist polemic Three Guineas that shocked some of her fellow members including Keynes who had enjoyed the gentler A Room of One ’ s Own ( 1929 ).
Following Virginia ’ s death Leonard Woolf began editing collections of her writings including a selection from her diaries, A Writer ’ s Diary ( 1953 ), which revealed publicly for the first time what the Bloomsbury Group had been like.
In his 2006 book about Virginia Woolf he stated that she put an end to her life by a conscious and deliberate act, her suicide being an expression of her freedom of choice.
Virginia Woolf briefly owned-but never lived in-the Round House, a windmill in Pipe Passage, in 1919 before moving to her final home, Monk's House in Rodmell.
As her great-niece Virginia Woolf wrote in the 1926 introduction to the Hogarth Press collection of Cameron's photographs, " In the trio sisters where ... was Beauty ; and Dash ; Mrs. Cameron was undoubtedly Talent ".
O ’ Neill notes that Cavendish ’ s natural philosophy, and writing in general, was criticized by many of her contemporaries as well as by more recent readers, such as Samuel Pepys, Henry More and Virginia Woolf.
In an interview published in American Literary History, Kingston disclosed her admiration for Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, and William Carlos Williams, who were inspirational influences for her work, shaping her analysis of gender studies.
Monk's House is located in the village, the home of the author Virginia Woolf for twenty-one years until her death in 1941.
Mansfield began to broaden her literary acquaintances for the remainder of the year, encountering Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Bertrand Russell through social gatherings and introductions from others.

Woolf and husband
* Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf, grew up in Putney
Her husband Leonard Woolf continued to live there until his death in 1969, and after a few more residents had passed through, it was bought by the University of Sussex, before being acquired and restored by the National Trust.
* August 14 – Leonard Woolf, political theorist and husband of Virginia Woolf
Leonard Sidney Woolf ( 25 November 1880 – 14 August 1969 ) was an English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.
Elizabeth Bibesco was connected ( especially in the mind of the media ) with Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, neither of whom treated her well in their letters and diaries, especially after a liaison between Elizabeth and Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry.
* Leonard Woolf, author and husband of Virginia Woolf.
Upon completing the draft of this, her most autobiographical novel, Woolf described it as ' easily the best of my books ' and her husband Leonard thought it a masterpiece, ' entirely new ... a psychological poem '.
Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf were publishers, and had previously published William Plomer's works, and it was through Plomer's connections that van der Post gained introduction to the Woolfs and the Bloomsbury Set.
It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together.
Virginia Woolf recorded her impressions of Gertler after he came to visit her and her husband in Sussex in September 1918.

Woolf and Leonard
* August 14 – Leonard Woolf, English writer ( b. 1880 )
" Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as ' Old Bloomsbury ' Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Roger Fry, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, with Julian, Quentin and Angelica Bell, and David Garnett as later additions ".
Others such as Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, the MacCarthys, Duncan Grant, and Roger Fry needed to work for their living.
Clive Bell married Vanessa in 1907, and Leonard Woolf returned from the Ceylon Civil Service to marry Virginia in 1912.
Politically the members of Bloomsbury were divided between liberalism and socialism, as can be seen in the respective careers and writings of Maynard Keynes and Leonard Woolf.
Desmond MacCarthy and Leonard Woolf engaged in friendly rivalry as literary editors, respectively of the New Statesman and the Nation and Athenaeum, thus fuelling animosities that saw Bloomsbury dominating the cultural scene.
Roger Fry wrote and lectured widely on art ; while Clive Bell applied Bloomsbury values to his book Civilization ( 1928 ), which Leonard Woolf saw as limited and elitist, describing Clive as a " wonderful organiser of intellectual greyhound racing tracks ".
With Lady Ottoline Morrell, Leonard Woolf and Harry Norton he took part in Ezra Pound's scheme to ' get Eliot out of the bank ' ( Eliot had a job in the international department of Lloyd's, a London bank, and well-meaning friends wanted him full-time writing poetry ).
* Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Woolf.
* The Hogarth Press is founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
* Virginia ( 1882 – 1941 ) married Leonard Woolf
As a couple, Leonard and Virginia Woolf became influential in the Bloomsbury group, which also included various other ' Apostles '.
As his wife began to suffer greatly from mental illness, Woolf devoted much of his time to caring for her ( Leonard Woolf himself suffered with depression / mental illnesses ).

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