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Article: "Telling brutal things": colonialism, Bloomsbury and the crisis of narration in Leonard Woolf's "A Tale Told by Moonlight".(Critical Essay)
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- March 22, 2001
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UPON RETURNING FROM Ceylon in 1911, where he had served for nearly eight years as a colonial bureaucrat, Leonard Woolf resigned his post in the colonial service and married Virginia Stephen, eventually settling down with her in their new home, Monk's House in Sussex in 1916. Along with Virginia and Vanessa and their Cambridge friends, Leonard Woolf established the "new" Bloomsbury Group as the center of a liberal aesthetic and intellectual culture fashioned after the tradition inherited from the late Victorians. During this period Leonard Woolf wrote his novel The Wise Virgins (1914), and a novel and three short stories based on his experienced in Ceylon, The Village in ...
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Article: Leonard Woolf: A Life.(Book review)
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February 1, 2007 ;
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...Leonard Woolf A Life Victoria Glendinning Simon and Schuster 530 pp 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 7432 2030 7 ANYONE WHO HAS HAD THE PLEASURE of reading Leonard Woolf's five-volume autobiography, published during the decade before his ...
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