Virginia Woolf Woolf with well needed relief from the pace of London life and was where she found a happiness that she expressed in her diary of May 5, 1919 "Oh, but how happy we've been at Asheham! It was a most melodious time. Everything went so freely; - but I can't analyse all the sources of my joy". "Asham" was also the inspiration for "A Haunted House" (1921-1944), and was painted by members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry. It was during these times at "Asham" that Ka Cox (seen here) started to devote herself to Virginia
Leonard Woolf Leonard's tracts and, among other works, the first edition of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Woolf continued as the main director of the Press until his death. His wife suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, until her suicide by drowning in 1941. Later Leonard fell in love with a married artist, Trekkie Parsons. In 1919, Woolf became editor of the "International Review". He also edited the international section of the "Contemporary Review" from 1920 to 1922. He was literary editor of "The Nation and Atheneum", generally referred to simply as "The Nation", from 1923 to 1930),