Obituaries and tributes to Cecil Woolf, the oldest living relative of Virginia Woolf who died June 10 in London, are ongoing. The latest is published in the June 26 issue of The Guardian.
Cecil Woolf stops at 46 Gordon Square, London, while giving Blogging Woolf a personalized tour of Bloomsbury in June 2016.
The article’s subhead, “Publisher and nephew of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, he extended the hand of friendship to Woolf scholars and writers,” encapsulates an important part of the legacy of this beloved gentleman, scholar, and founder of Cecil Woolf Publishers.
In The Guardian story, Cecil’s wife, author Jean Moorcroft Wilson, reflected on her decades-long collaboration with her husband, as well as the future of the couple’s publishing house:
We had an extraordinarily good working relationship … My great wish is that Cecil Woolf Publishers continue, and I have every intention of doing my utmost to ensure it does, either with me or our children, or with someone else who shares the same values and ideals.
Although The Times June 15 obituary is behind a paywall, you can read it on this blog via photographs of the print page.
Jean also wrote an obituary that ran in the Camden News Journal, which can be read at this post.
His funeral was held in London at Golders Green Crematorium on Monday, June 24, at 3 p.m., with friends and family gathering at the family home in London home afterwards. A memorial service will also be held in late September or early October, but details have not yet been set.
His legacy
Some tributes to Cecil’s legacy have taken place; others are planned.
They include:
- O outro garoto na Hogarth Press: homenagem a Cecil Woolf
- Dedication of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain’s Dalloway Day events at Waterstones Gower Street to Cecil Woolf.
- A special section devoted to Cecil Woolf in Issue 95, the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of the International Virginia Woolf Society’s Miscellany. Here is the call for papers:
Call for Papers: A special section devoted to Cecil Woolf will be included in Issue 95, the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of the International Virginia Woolf Society’s Miscellany. If you would like to submit a remembrance of Cecil Woolf to be included in that section, please contact Paula Maggio at bloggingwoolf@yahoo.com. Submissions, which can be submitted via email to bloggingwoolf@yahoo.com, should be limited to 1,000 words. However, briefer remembrances are also welcome. Submission deadline is July 31.
- The next issue of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain’s Bulletin will be dedicated to Cecil Woolf and will include remembrances of him.
Condolences
Those who would like to send a message of condolence to the family may direct it to Jean Moorcroft Wilson at 1 Mornington Place, London NW1 7RP, England.
A daughter’s tributes
Below are a selection of tweets sent by Cecil and Jean’s daughter, author Emma Woolf, in tribute to her father.
Thank you for all the wonderful cards, letters & flowers (on our Hogarth Press kitchen table of course!) 2 days until the funeral and we’ve already had so many beautiful tributes to Daddy. We really appreciate the love & happy memories #CecilWoolf pic.twitter.com/PBjyHvYc9W
— Emma Woolf (@EJWoolf) June 22, 2019
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And the joy of finding these nestling into my father’s study (sheer chaos) from my lovely publisher, agent and friend @YasminKane3. Please keep writing & sending us your stories of Cecil, they make us so happy – and I’ve loved every one of your tweets xx pic.twitter.com/V9nMdotC4u
— Emma Woolf (@EJWoolf) June 22, 2019
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