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Woolf, Leonard Sidney 1880-1969
English publisher and writer

Born in London, he was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked in the Ceylon Civil Service (1904-11), and his early novels, such as The Village and the Jungle (1913), have Ceylon as a background. In 1916 he joined the Fabian Society and in 1917 along with his wife Virginia Woolf he founded the Hogarth Press; the two became the centre of the so-called 'Bloomsbury Group'. His works include Socialism and Co-operation (1921), After the Deluge (1931, 1939) and Principia Politica (1953). He published his autobiography in five volumes, Sowing (1960), Growing (1961), Beginning Again (1964), Downhill all the Way (1967), and The Journey not the Arrival Matters (1969).