Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virgina Woolf: 
Peace, Politics, and Education

Edited by Wayne K. Chapman and Janet M. Manson


Table of Contents

Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Preface

1. Margaret Llewelyn Davies and Leonard Woolf 
SYBIL OLDFIELD
2. “L.’s Dame Secretaire”: Alix Strachey, the Hogarth Press and Bloomsbury Pacifism, 1917-1960 
WAYNE K. CHAPMAN
3. Bloomsbury Ancestry: Jane Maria Strachey, Feminism, and Younger Strachey Women 58
NUPUR CHAUDHURI
4. Ray Strachey—A Memoir 
BARBARA STRACHEY HALPERN
5. “Dear Mother”: Ray Strachey’s Role in Feminism and the League of Nations as Seen from the Lilly Library
MEG A. MENEGHEL
6. Marie Stopes: Her War for Peace 
DIANE F. GILLESPIE
7. Winfred Holtby and the Peace Movement between the Wars 
MARION SHAW
8. A Writing Couple: Shared Ideology in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and Leonard Woolf’s Quack, Quack! 
PATRICIA LAURENCE
9. Beatrice Webb and Margaret Cole: Fabian Politics and Pacifism 
BETTY VERNON
10. Margery Perham, the Fabians, and Colonial Policy 
JANET M. MANSON
11. Eleanor Balfour Sidgwick and Henry Sidgwick: Collaborators on the Fourth Guinea 
SARAH BISHOP MERRILL
12. Octavia Wilberforce: A Portrait Unrealized 
EVELYN HARRIS HALLER

Textual and Bibliographic Appendices

A. “Octavia [Wilberforce]’s Story” by Virginia Woolf
EDITED BY WAYNE K. CHAPMAN AND EVELYN HARRIS HALLER
B. Collaborative Reviewing by Leonard and Virginia Woolf 
WAYNE K. CHAPMAN
C. Notes on The Nation and Athenaeum Archival Records 
JANET M. MANSON
 
Select Bibliography (Principal Works)
List of Contributors
Index 

Illustrations
1. FRONTISPIECE: Vanessa Bell’s illustration for 
“A Society” in Monday or Tuesday (London: 
Hogarth, 1921) by Virginia Woolf 

2. Margaret Llewelyn Davies, c. 1920

3. James and Alix Strachey, c. 1930 

4. Jane Maria Strachey, 1913 

5. Ray Costelloe Strachey, c. 1911–12 

6. Marie Stopes, 1905 

7. Winfred Holtby 

8. Naziism and Anti-Feminism, Monks House Papers
(MHP B.f.2) 

9. “19 lb. Clothes at Coronation,” Monks House Papers 
(MHP Feb. 1937) 

10. Comparison of the Vanity of Men and Women, 
Monks House Papers (MHP B.f.16) 

11. Women’s Political Creed, Monks House Papers 
(MHP B.f.1) 

12. “Effigy of the War-God Kukailimoku from the 
Hawaiian Islands” in Leonard Woolf’s
Quack, Quack! 

13. “Herr Hitler” in Leonard Woolf’s
Quack, Quack! 

14. “Effigy of the War-God Kukailimoku 
from the Hawaiian Islands” in Leonard Woolf’s 
Quack, Quack! 

15. “Signor Mussolini” in Leonard Woolf’s 
Quack, Quack! 

16. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, c. 1940 

17. Margaret Cole, 1951 

18. Margery Perham 

19. Eleanor Sidgwick, c. 1906 

20. Newnham College, Cambridge, 1895 

21. Octavia Wilberforce in her 
great-grandfather’s court dress 

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