Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the ...
Virginia Woolf
This book reconsiders Virginia Woolf's work for the 21st century focusing on coevolution, duality and contradiction. These 11 newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early 21st-century. D...
Virginia Woolf
"[T]he most informative, most nearly definitive, most judicious word on this major, modern writer."-Scott Elledge
Virginia Woolf
Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed ...
Virginia Woolf
Rescues the particularities of Virginia Woolf's political and social participation, tracing her career as an activist across forty-five years Clara Jones re-reads Woolf's fiction and non-fiction in light of her examination of the details of Woolf'...
Virginia Woolf
'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia Woolf An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon' TIME OUT 'A gem' SUNDAY TIMES '...
Virginia Woolf
As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writ...
Virginia Woolf
E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf were members of the Bloomsbury Group and key literary figures at the forefront of an artistic movement known as Modernism in the early twentieth century, a movement which for English literature meant the innovative...
Virginia Woolf
Learn about incredible story of Virginia Woolf! The modernist writer and feminist. Born into an artistic household, little Virginia loved writing. At nine years old, she started a newspaper about her family - delighting relatives with her wit and ...
Virginia Woolf
This prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an...
Virginia Woolf
The first and collection of Virginia Woolf's most inspirational quotes. 'No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.' Over 100 words of wisdom from the inimitable Virginia Woolf on love, literature, feminism, food, wor...
Virginia Woolf
This prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an...
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed ...
Virginia Woolf
As the most canonical woman writer of modern English literature, Virginia Woolf has become central to our conceptions of literature, modernist theory, the arts, feminism, and social analysis. The interdisciplinary examinations in this anthology ex...
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Vita and Virginia
Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West first met in 1922 when they were aged 40 and their correspondence continued for the next 20 years until Virginia's suicide in 1941. While Vita revered Virginia's genius, Virginia was at times dismisive of Vit...
Virginia Woolf Icon
This text is about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in mea...
Imagining Virginia Woolf
Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an e...
Reading Virginia Woolf
The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late ...
Virginia Woolf Icon
This text is about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been use...
Becoming Virginia Woolf
Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf's diary is her lengthiest and longest-sustained work, and the last to reach the public. In the only full-length work to deeply explore this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece,...
Bokstöd: Virginia Woolf
Bokstöd: Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolfs Trädgård - Historien Om Trädgården Vid Monk's House
Virginia och Leonard Woolf bodde i Monk s House i Sussex från 1919. Virginia tog sitt liv 1941, men Leonard bodde kvar i Monk s House till 1969. År 1980 togs huset och trädgården över av National Trust. Varje år strömmar tusentals trädgårds- och Virginia Woolf-älskare till den lilla byn Rodmell och Monk s House. Virginia Woolfs trädgård berättar historien om ett hus och en trädgård, om hur Virginia och Leonard gjorde Monk s House till sitt, om hur de skapade nya rum i trädgården genom Virginia Woolfs framgångsrika författarskap och om deras stora kärlek till det dagliga arbetet i trädgården för Virginia också en avkoppling från författarskapet. Det var här som hon bland annat skrev klassikerna Mrs Dalloway , Mot fyren , Orlando och essän Ett eget rum .
Virginia Woolf : en biografi
Virginia Woolf är en internationellt känd romanförfattare och litterär ikon som alltid kommer att räknas in bland de stora. Mer än 80 år efter hennes bortgång¿fortsätter Woolfs böcker att komma ut i nya utgåvor, såväl i hennes hemland Englan...
Virginia Woolf: The Waves
Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme w...
Virginia Woolf and Music
These essays explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and other works). Approach...
Philosophy of Virginia Woolf
Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her "philosophy"-the "constant idea" that "makes her a writer." She wrote that this idea had given her "the strongest pleasure known to [her]." She called ...
Letters to Virginia Woolf
Letters to Virginia Woolf is both a lyrical memoir and meditation on Woolf's life and writing. Starting with the events of 9/11, Williams examines Woolf's anti-war views and their relevance to our present time. In her pacifist manifesto, Three Gui...
Virginia Woolf As Feminist
Before the Second World War and long before the second wave of feminism, Virginia Woolf argued that women's experience, particularly in the women's movement, could be the basis for transformative social change. Grounding Virginia Woolf's feminist ...
Virginia Woolf at Home
An intimate exploration of Virginia Woolf's homes
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
What if Virginia Woolf came back to life in the twenty-first century?Bestselling author Angela Lamb is going through a mid-life crisis. She dumps her irrepressible daughter Gerda at boarding school and flies to New York to pursue her passion for W...