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Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf: Another View

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“It had seemed to me ever since I was very young,” Adrian Stephen wrote in The Dreadnought Hoax in 1936, “that anyone who took up an attitude of authority over anyone else was necessarily also someone who offered a leg to pull.”1

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  1. Adrian Stephen, The Dreadnought Hoax (London, 1936), pp. 10–11.

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  2. Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, I (London, 1972), 170.

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  3. Quentin Bell, Bloomsbury (London, 1968), p. 45.

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  4. Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury Group (London, 1971), pp. 41–2.

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  5. Sir John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters (London, 1956), p. 14.

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  6. Noel Annan, Leslie Stephen (London, 1952), p. 126.

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  7. Clive Bell, Old Friends (New York, 1957), p. 131.

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  8. Leonard Woolf, Sowing (London, 1961), p. 132.

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  9. Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again (London, 1964), pp. 22–3.

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  10. See Leon Edel, Bloomsbury: A House of Lions (Philadelphia and New York, 1979), pp. 212, 219, and 234, respectively.

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  11. J. M. Keynes, Two Memoirs (New York, 1949), pp. 83 and 98, passim.

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  12. Recollections of Virginia Woolf, ed. Joan Russell Noble (London, 1972), p. 29.

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  13. See Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind (New York, 1976), p. 113. The letter quoted is dated 14 November 1932.

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  14. See E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (London, 1927), ch. 3.

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  15. See Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader (London, 1925), p. 154.

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    John Halperin (Centennial Professor of English)

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Halperin, J. (1988). Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf: Another View. In: Jane Austen’s Lovers and Other Studies in Fiction and History from Austen to le Carré. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19332-5_12

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