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
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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