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Article: Leonard Woolf's grand passion; Books.(Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 12, 2001
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Byline: CLAIRE HARMAN
LOVE LETTERS: Leonard Woolf and Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, 1941-1968 edited by Judith Adamson (Chatto, [pound]20)
WHEN Leonard Woolf died in 1969, he left Monk's House and almost everything else he owned to Trekkie Parsons, the South African-born wife of one of his former publishing colleagues, Ian Parsons of Chatto & Windus.
The will was disputed by an angry band of nephews and nieces, claiming that Mrs Parsons had exercised "undue influence" over the venerable old Bloomsburyite.
But Mrs Parsons won the case and, as if to prove that she was no gold-digger, handed over the property and the Woolf archive to the ...