Woolf, Adeline Virginia, 1882-1941 (novelist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1882 - 1941
Biography
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born at Kensington on 25 January 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen. She was a key figure in the Bloomsbury circle, and married one of its number, Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880-1969), in 1912. She wrote novels, including Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the lighthouse (1927), and critical essays. She drowned herself on 28 March 1941, following a nervous collapse.
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Series
Article by David Bradshaw: British Writers and Anti-Facism in the 1930s in Woolf Studies Annual, Part 1 in Vol.3, 1997 and Part 2 in Vol. 4, 1998, 1997
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9369/C1
Scope and Contents
2 articles with 2 covering letters
Dates:
1997
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
For Intellectual Liberty: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9369
Scope and Contents
Comprises: minutes of meetings of the F.I.L. committee, 1935-1940; scrpabook of press cuttings, chiefly letters written by F.I.L. members to the press on a range of subjects in the lead-up to the Second World War; printed publications and statements; papers of the British Section of the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture, 1938-40, including letters of Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and Sylvia Townsend Warner; papers relating to refugees; publications; index of...
Dates:
1936-1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Journal, 9 Dec. 1925-9 June 1926 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/22
Scope and Contents
The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1925-III, 1926-I' and mostly comprises diary entries written while Sassoon was living at 23 Campden Hill Square, London. Diary entries include passages on: /8r. a biography of Thomas Hardy; /10r-11r. the death and funeral of his uncle Hamo Thornycroft; /16r-16v, /117r. Robert Graves; /39v-41v. entries concerning his War experience; /48r-48v. on meeting Sean O'Casey; /51. Virginia Woolf; /77r-109r. on the coal miner's strike; and frequent...
Dates:
9 Dec. 1925-9 June 1926 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Conditions Governing Access:
This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
Item
Letter from Virginia Woolf, 1928
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8900/5/5/9
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Minutes, accounts, lists of books recommended and considered, letters from English and French committee members and prizewinners, and newscuttings. Letters from prizewinners: Percy Lubbock, Mary Webb (6), Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, H.M. Tomlinson, Charles Morgan (7), Stella Gibbons/Webb (4), Elizabeth Jenkins (2), L.H. Myers (2), Margaret Lane, Richard Church (2), and Robert Graves. Letters from French prizewinners: Joseph Kessel, François Mauriac, Marion Gilbert (2), étienne Burnet...
Dates:
1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Virginia Woolf: On Being Ill
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8472
Scope and Contents
'On being ill', a holograph manuscript of 24 October 1925. There are accompanying letters by Virginia and Leonard Woolf and V. Sackville-West, 1936-1966, and an extract from a sale catalogue of 25 July 1978, concerning letters of Virginia Woolf.
Dates:
1925-1978
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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- Anti-fascism 1
- Jewish refugees 1
- Refugees 1
- Second World War (1939-1945) 1
- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 1