Blogging Woolf

A fourth obituary for Cecil Woolf, the oldest living relative of Virginia Woolf who died June 10 in London, was published yesterday. This one appears in The Telegraph. It is listed below, along with the other three.

Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson at the Nov. 22, 2014,
unveiling of the Blue Plaque at Frome Station, which recognized the marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

• “Cecil Woolf, independent publisher who had vivid memories of his aunt and uncle Virginia and Leonard Woolf – obituary.” – The Telegraph, July 1, 2019
• “Cecil Woolf obituary: Publisher and nephew of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, he extended the hand of friendship to Woolf scholars and writers” – The Guardian, June 26, 2019
• “Cecil Woolf obituary: Poet, publisher and rather shy nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf” – The Times, June 15, 2019. Read it via photographs posted on this blog.
• “Cecil James Sidney Woolf (20 February 1927-10 June 2019)” – Camden News Journal. Read it at this post.

He had too much style and charm, however, to say more at the events and conferences he was prevailed upon to attend than that he always saw Virginia through the prism of his childhood in the 1930s. Then, she was merely a well-regarded writer rather than a feminist icon. – The Telegraph