Leonard Woolf
(1880-1969)

founder of the Hogarth Press

Died aged 88

Leonard Sidney Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 November 1880 – 14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. 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. A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. Leonard and Virginia did not have any children.

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member of Bloomsbury Group

Commemorated on 6 plaques

In this house Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived 1915-1924 and founded the Hogarth Press in 1917

Hogarth House, 34 Paradise Road, Richmond Upon Thames, London, United Kingdom where they lived

Leonard Woolf born November 25 1880 died August 14 1909. "I believe profoundly in two rules, justice and mercy. They seem to me the foundation of all civilized lief and society if you include under mercy

Monk's House, Rodmell, United Kingdom where they lived

Leonard Woolf political theorist travelled from this station to London on 11 January 1912 to propose marriage to Adeline Virginia Stephen. The resulting union bore fruit in The League of Nations, The Hogarth Press and the major works of VIRGINIA WOOLF Writer

Frome Railway Station, Station Approach, Frome, United Kingdom where they was

"We've bought a house in Lewes, on the spur of the moment. It's the butt end of an old windmill, so that all the rooms are either completely round or semi circular. Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury writers, purchased this house in June 1919

Pipe Passage, Lewes, United Kingdom where they owned

Bloomsbury Group Members Virginia Woolf Duncan Grant Adrian Stephen Leonard Woolf & John Maynard Keynes lived in a house on this site 1911-1912 UCL School of Pharmacy

38 Brunswick Square, London, United Kingdom where they was

Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 Leonard Woolf 1880-1969 Writers and Publishers Lived at No. 52 a house on this site 1924-1939

52 Tavistock Square (now Tavistock Hotel), London, United Kingdom where they was