Together, Leonard and Virginia Woolf became influential in the Bloomsbury Group, which also included various other former Apostles. She then bought Monk's House and sold the Round House. The same year, they discovered Monk's House in nearby Rodmell, which both she and Leonard favoured because of its orchard and garden. In 1919, the Woolfs purchased the Round House in Pipe Passage, Lewes, East Sussex. In early March 1915, the couple moved to nearby Hogarth House, Paradise Road. Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived at 17 The Green, Richmond upon Thames, starting from October 1914. Instead, however, he resigned in early 1912 and that same year married Virginia Stephen. Woolf returned to England in May 1911 for a year's leave. In October 1904, Woolf moved to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to become a cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service, in Jaffna and later Kandy, and by August 1908 was named an assistant government agent in the Southern Province, where he administered the District of Hambantota. Woolf was awarded his BA in 1902, but stayed there for another year to study for the Civil Service examinations held then. Thoby Stephen (his future wife's brother) was friendly with the Apostles, though not a member himself. Other contemporary members included Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, G. From 1894 to 1899, he attended St Paul's School, and in 1899 he won a classical scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles. After his father died in 1892, Woolf was sent to board at Arlington House School near Brighton, Sussex. Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh). Leonard and Virginia did not have any children.Įarly life Leonard Woolf and his wife Virginia Woolf in 1912 Government Agent of Anuradhapura District Nissanka Wijeyeratne with Leonard Woolf at Abhayagiri vihāra in 1960 A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. As a member of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. Leonard Sidney Woolf ( / ˈ w ʊ l f/ ( )25 November 1880 – ( )14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant.
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