Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf Peace Politics and Education [Paperback]

...was an absorbing collection of essays, which helps to set Woolf's feminism and pacifism in a carefully researched context of the work of often forgotten women workers for these two causes. Woolf herself would have appreciated the book......situates the debates about the importance of the socialist and pacifist vision of Leonard and Virginia Woolf on solid historical ground...confirms the view of [them]...as the serious and committed English public intellectuals they really were....the volume has an excellent preface and an impressive select bibliography...opens up fruitful materials for future scholarship on the Woolfs. J.E.Steiner, Drew University,> ...the volume has an excellent preface and an impressive select bibliography...opens up fruitful materials for future scholarship on the Woolfs. J.E.Steiner, Drew University,...was an absorbing collection of essays, which helps to set Woolf's feminism and pacifism in a carefully researched context of the work of often forgotten women workers for these two causes. Woolf herself would have appreciated the book......situates the debates about the importance of the socialist and pacifist vision of Leonard and Virginia Woolf on solid historical ground...confirms the view of [them]...as the serious and committed English public intellectuals they really were.Copublished with Pace University Press, this book is a valuable addition to scholarship on Bloomsbury, the history of women in Britain, and the work of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It portrays an era and illuminates the work of a number of famous writers by examining less well-known lives and works that were part of the adaptive complex, or milieu.Copublished with Pace University Press, this book is a valuable addition to scholarship on Bloomsbury, the history of women in Britain, and the work of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It portrays an era and illuminates the work of a number of famous writers by examining less well-known lives and works that were part of the adapl-