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Woolf: A soft but influential voice
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070121
Author:William H. Pritchard
BOOK REVIEW
Leonard Woolf: A Biography
By Victoria Glendinning
Free Press, 498 pp., illustrated, $30
Deciding to write a life of Leonard Woolf is probably not something Victoria Glendinning, a veteran biographer of such figures as Jonathan Swift, Anthony Trollope, Rebecca West, and Vita Sackville- West, undertook lightly. Not only is the landscape scattered with too many accounts - letters, diaries, biographies - of all sorts of minor Bloomsberries riding on the coattails of Virginia Woolf's reputation, but in a sense Glendinning has already been anticipated.
For although this is the first ...
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