Volume 53, Number 20 · December 21, 2006
The Love of a Pessimist
By P.N. Furbank
Leonard Woolf: A Biography
by Victoria Glendinning
Free Press, 498 pp., $30.00
It is natural, and no doubt correct, to suppose that Leonard Woolf has been thought to deserve an elaborate and large-scale biography because he married Virginia Stephen. But one needs to be careful how one phrases that remark. For the infinitely poignant story of Virginia Woolf's life and death would certainly have been different if there had been no Leonard Woolf; his behavior in the marriage was remarkable and is the most impressive thing about him.
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