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| 1880-1969. Writer, critic and together with his wife [[Virginia Woolf]] owner of the Hogarth Press, which printed many seminal modernist texts, among them, T.S. Eliot's ''The Waste Land'' (1922) and the collected works in English by Sigmund Freud. | | 1880-1969. Writer, critic and together with his wife [[Virginia Woolf]] owner of the [[Hogarth Press]], which printed many seminal modernist texts, among them, T.S. Eliot's ''[[The Waste Land]]'' (1922) and the collected works in English by [[Sigmund Freud]]. |
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| Leonard Woolf is born in 1880 as one of nine children. His father, Sydney Woolf, is a Jewish lawyer, his mother, Marie de Jongh, whose parents are Jewish too, originally comes from Holland. Both live in Britain.
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| When Leonard’s father dies in 1892 (Leonard is only 12 years old and his youngest sibling is just three years old), the live of the Woolf family changes dramatically. Leonard’s mother has to sell their home in order to move into a smaller house. Money is rare. However, together with his siblings Edgar, Cecil and Philip, Leonard gets a scholarship. Thus, from 1894 to 1899, Leonard gets the chance to attend St. Paul’s School and later even studies at Trinity College in Cambridge. There, he joins the so called Cambridge Apostles.
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| During his time at Trinity College, he gets to know his future wife Virginia Stephen. They are around thirty years old, when they marry in 1912. The couple makes its living through writing. As a result, during their marriage, Leonard writes seventeen books. His first novel, “The Village in the Jungle”, is published one year after their marriage. Only few years after their marriage, Virginia and Leonard become owners of the above mentioned Hogarth Press.
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| During their years together, Virginia suffers from sever depressions. Leonard tries to look as well after her as possible. But when Leonard is sixty years old, Virginia commits suicide and drowns herself in River Ouse.
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| Even though Leonard continues his writings after Virginia’s death, he only published one book, called “Principa Politica”. In 1953 however, Leonard starts to write his own autobiography. Sixteen years later, in 1969, Leonard, who is now 89 years old, dies after a high fever.
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| '''Bibliography:'''
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| Woolf, Leonard. 1988. Mein Leben mit Virginia. Erinnerungen. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main.
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| Spater, George/Parsons, Ian. 2002. Portät einer ungewöhnlichen Ehe. Virginia und Leonard Woolf. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
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1880-1969. Writer, critic and together with his wife Virginia Woolf owner of the Hogarth Press, which printed many seminal modernist texts, among them, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) and the collected works in English by Sigmund Freud.