Leonard Woolf - On the Formation of the Bloomsbury Group and on Virginia Woolf 

I watched this years ago and it still brings tears to my eyes. What a privilege to see and hear Leonard Woolf. My cousin was in that group . Walter Darcy Cresswell a poet lived in that group. He sold his poems on a sheet of paper for a penny and worked as a night watchman to live. My parents loved him but his parents disowned him. All the Cresswell letters are in the Canterbury University in Christchurch. They were a loving family but I think D’Arcy was gay and back then some people couldn’t manage it. Douglas Cresswell whom I met shows this in in his letters. The Cresswell’s were interesting so many looked liked twins. My Da d and Douglas plus William all looked the same and several I interviewed were so like my Dad. I am just sad none of my children have that likeness. I have some wonderful photo albums from c1900 just don’t know where to leave them as I am old.

This makes my heart sing. Thank you so much. Can never get enough of the Bloomsbury Group.

A miraculous moment in history, Bloomsbury.

bravo! please more videos about Bloomsbury!

A precious item from the archives - thankyou.

I’m reading his book “ The village in the Jungle “ right now

He was in Sri Lanka and wrote a novel on our country side " Village in the Jungle " it's an amazing book with real bitter truth. Astonishment is how as an administrative officer he understood that situation in rural Sri Lankan village.

Wonderful! Thank you. 🌹

" She was interested, in fact, in everything".

Leopard Wolf is a name that will be remembered in Sri Lanka with the book "Village in the Jungle ". It has been translated in to the Sinhalese language . And he is remembered as a man with compassion rather than a strict administrator .

3 years ago I visited Monk’s House for the first time then went for a walk across the South Downs, searching for the river, when I bumped into an old man walking his dog, after asking him for directions I asked if he had met Virginia, he said no, but he had met Leonard who was “very generous to the community”.

Thanks for that look into the lives of Virginia Woolf and her husband. I am a fan of Ronald Firbank's and find that his poetic language crystallises more precisely than that of Woolf or D.H.Lawrence, let alone E.M. Forster who was outrageously condescending about him.

Can I add another comment.acousin I don’t know wrote a book of letters called Dear Lady Ginger. It’s Brilliant. Between D’Arcy and Lady Ottiline Morrell of the Bloomsbury group.

Спасибо ВАМ !!!

I used to live at Garsington manor near Oxford.

Could you please tell me the source of this? I would like to cite it for my work.

Leonard an ind Virginia despised each other in words and deeds.

When did this interview took place and what is the interviewer’s name?

Saxon Sydney-Turner was the one name from the original set of 13 that I didn't recognise. Is that the same for anyone else? Has he been largely forgotten about, do you think?

Hands up if Cain's Jawbone brought you here 🤚

Tamara Dovgan - greetings from Sydney back to St Petersburg! great to have the connection with Lydia Lopokova (as i spell her name :) ) i had a connection to the Bloomsbury Group through a minor painter connected with it - Eve Disher - i posted a video here on her :)

Does anyone know the year of this recording?

I thought Dora Carrington was part of the group

Gerald Brennan didn't think highly of the Blooms bury group, neither did Roger Poole. They were decided rationalists and not in the least poetic, according to my reading thus far.