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Leonard Woolf, out of the shadows

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20061217
Author:Anna Mundow With Victoria Glendinning

The Interview

Victoria Glendinning has written superb biographies of Anthony Trollope, Jonathan Swift, Elizabeth Bowen, Rebecca West, Vita Sackville-West, and Edith Sitwell as well as three novels. "Leonard Woolf: A Biography" (Free Press, $30) is her remarkable portrait of a complex, private man who abandoned his early colonial career to marry Virginia Stephen, with whom he founded the Hogarth Press. A committed socialist, tireless journalist, editor, and gardener, Woolf was also a passionate critic of imperialism. He died in 1969, at age 89.

Glendinning spoke from her home in Somerset, ...

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