Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Volumes 1-2Nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an intimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, and revised for this new edition, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood, her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdowns of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the Hogarth Press; her friendships with T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield and Vita Sackville-West; her struggles to write The waves and The years; and the political and personal distresses of her last decade. |
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Page 94
... Bloomsbury . When the Stephen children planned this move their friends and relations had been astonished and a little shocked . Kensington was a good address ; Bloomsbury was not . " Kitty , " wrote Virginia , * " Also Haldane isn't ...
... Bloomsbury . When the Stephen children planned this move their friends and relations had been astonished and a little shocked . Kensington was a good address ; Bloomsbury was not . " Kitty , " wrote Virginia , * " Also Haldane isn't ...
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... Bloomsbury for Bloomsbury hardly existed . " It has vanished like the morning mist , " wrote Virginia to Ka Cox . In so far as it revived at all its reassembly was due to the development of the war . The year 1915 had been inconclusive ...
... Bloomsbury for Bloomsbury hardly existed . " It has vanished like the morning mist , " wrote Virginia to Ka Cox . In so far as it revived at all its reassembly was due to the development of the war . The year 1915 had been inconclusive ...
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... Bloomsbury Bunnies " ; others she re- ferred to as " the Underworld . " It was among the former that she sought a helper in the quite considerable task of printing and binding Prelude . Their first assistant , a tall and grave young ...
... Bloomsbury Bunnies " ; others she re- ferred to as " the Underworld . " It was among the former that she sought a helper in the quite considerable task of printing and binding Prelude . Their first assistant , a tall and grave young ...
Contents
Appendix B Report on Teaching at Morley College | 202 |
Appendix B Fantasy upon a Gentleman | 253 |
A Note on Sources and References | 260 |
Copyright | |
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