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Virginia Woolf was born a Stephen and the Stephens, like the Stracheys, were a literary family related to a large portion of literary England. Further, like the Stracheys, they gave England lawyers, colonial administrators, members of parliament, journalists and scientists. James Stephen — Virginia’s great-grandfather — became the trusted friend and ally of Wilberforce in his fight against slavery. His son continued to fight for emancipation which he advocated from a high post in the Colonial Office.
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Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf: A Biography (New York, 1972) pp. 42–7.
Virginia Woolf, Collected Essays, vol. 1 (New York, 1967) p. 320.
John Maynard Keynes, ‘My Early Beliefs’ (1938), in The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, vol. x (Cambridge, 1971–9) p. 437. On the matter of the newly liberated Stephens’ outlook see also Quentin Bell, Bloomsbury (New York, 1968) pp. 40–2.
John Maynard Keynes, ‘Am I a Liberal?’ (1925), in Collected Writings, vol. ix, p. 299.
Elizabeth S. Johnson and Harry G. Johnson, The Shadow of Keynes: Understanding Keynes, Cambridge and Keynesian Economics (Chicago, 1978) pp. 81–2.
S. P. Rosenbaum, ‘The Philosophic Realism of Virginia Woolf’, in English Literature and British Philosophy: A Collection of Essays, ed. and with an introduction by S. P. Rosenbaum (Chicago, 1971) pp. 316–56.
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (London, 1971) p. 163.
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room (London, 1949) pp. 25, 69 and 153.
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Mini, P.V. (1991). Virginia Woolf and Psychological Realism. In: Keynes, Bloomsbury and The General Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11651-5_8
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