Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf Peace Politics and Education

by Chapman, Wayne K.; Manson, Janet M.; Chaudhuri, Nupur; Gillespie, Diane F.; Haller, Evelyn Harris; Halpern, Barbara Strachey; Laurence, Patricia; Meneghel, Meg A.; Merrill, Sarah Bishop; Oldfield, Sybil; Shaw, Marion; Vernon, Betty

• ISBN13: 9780944473382
• ISBN10: 0944473385
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-16
• Publisher: University Publishing Association

Summary

A valuable addition to scholarship on Bloomsbury, the history of women in Britain, and the works of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It portrays an era and illuminates the work of a number of famous writers by examining less well-known lives and works that were part of the adaptive complex, or milieu. Essential reading for students of Bloomsbury and of women's history.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Margaret Llewelyn Davies and Leonard Woolf	p. 3
"L.'s Dame Secretaire": Alix Strachey, the Hogarth Press and Bloomsbury Pacifism, 1917-1960	p. 33
Bloomsbury Ancestry: Jane Maria Strachey, Feminism, and Younger Strachey Women	p. 58
Ray Strachey - A Memoir	p. 76
"Dear Mother": Ray Strachey's Role in Feminism and the League of Nations as Seen from the Lilly Library	p. 87
Marie Stopes: Her War for Peace	p. 96
Winfred Holtby and the Peace Movement between the Wars	p. 111
A Writing Couple: Shared Ideology in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and Leonard Woolf's Quack, Quack!	p. 125
Beatrice Webb and Margaret Cole: Fabian Politics and Pacifism	p. 144
Margery Perham, the Fabians, and Colonial Policy	p. 170
Eleanor Balfour Sidgwick and Henry Sidgwick: Collaborators on the Fourth Guinea	p. 191
Octavia Wilberforce: A Portrait Unrealized	p. 212
"Octavia [Wilberforce]'s Story" by Virginia Woolf	p. 239
Collaborative Reviewing by Leonard and Virginia Woolf	p. 243
Notes on The Nation and Athenaeum Archival Records	p. 248
Select Bibliography (Principal Works)	p. 252
List of Contributors	p. 263
Index	p. 267
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