Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain.
'The Village in the Jungle' as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home
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She explores Woolf's relationship to the metropolitan centre through his movement out to the colonial periphery and back again, exploring all that it held for him, including the Bloomsbury group and, of course, Virginia herself.
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On 9 March 2013, the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College host a workshop to mark the centenary of the publication of Leonard Woolf's path-breaking
first novel, set in then Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, The Village in the Jungle. Woolf's novel (the first of only two) is a leading yet often overlooked modernist document and is increasingly recognized as an extraordinarily far-sighted colonial text, an oblique record of his years as a colonial officer in Ceylon (1904-11...
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