Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939Leonard Woolf's recollections of his life with Virginia Woolf during the years when she wrote her major novels; also an account of the growth of the Hogarth Press, as well as portraits of Sigmund Freud, T. S. Eliot, and others. "There is a lucid probity in Leonard Woolf's writing" (Leon Edel, Saturday Review). Index; photographs. |
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Page 48
... twenty years were deeply divided for us into two other periods by two houses,
Hogarth House in Richmond from 1919 to 1924 and Tavistock Square in
Bloomsbury from 1924 to 1939. I must now deal with the period of six years in
Richmond.
... twenty years were deeply divided for us into two other periods by two houses,
Hogarth House in Richmond from 1919 to 1924 and Tavistock Square in
Bloomsbury from 1924 to 1939. I must now deal with the period of six years in
Richmond.
Page 117
It was parties like this and our increasing sociability in London which made the
question of whether we should stay on in Richmond or immigrate to Bloomsbury
more and more urgent. Already in 1922 Virginia was eager for the move. She had
...
It was parties like this and our increasing sociability in London which made the
question of whether we should stay on in Richmond or immigrate to Bloomsbury
more and more urgent. Already in 1922 Virginia was eager for the move. She had
...
Page 118
In Richmond it was possible to keep some control over our social life and, at a
danger signal, to shut ourselves off from it for a time. I feared that this would prove
impossible in London. However, in the middle of 1923 I became converted to the
...
In Richmond it was possible to keep some control over our social life and, at a
danger signal, to shut ourselves off from it for a time. I feared that this would prove
impossible in London. However, in the middle of 1923 I became converted to the
...
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| Title | Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 Volume 322 of Harvest books Harvest Book ; Hb 322 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reissue, illustrated |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1967 |
| ISBN | 0156261456, 9780156261456 |
| Length | 259 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General Biography & Autobiography / Historical Biography & Autobiography / Literary Biography & Autobiography / Political |
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