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 134
... E. M. Forster's critical work Aspects of the Novel . He seemed to her to be too ready to dis- miss the claims of art as opposed to those of what he called “ life ” ; it was an attitude which permitted him to do less than justice to ...
... E. M. Forster's critical work Aspects of the Novel . He seemed to her to be too ready to dis- miss the claims of art as opposed to those of what he called “ life ” ; it was an attitude which permitted him to do less than justice to ...
Page 185
... E. M. Forster , D. H. Lawrence , T. S. Eliot , James Joyce and Lytton Strachey . It was possible , in 1924 , to see the party warfare of literature in those terms . Ten years later it was no longer possible . Wells was now the only ...
... E. M. Forster , D. H. Lawrence , T. S. Eliot , James Joyce and Lytton Strachey . It was possible , in 1924 , to see the party warfare of literature in those terms . Ten years later it was no longer possible . Wells was now the only ...
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... Forster failed . But she could not always resist his appeals , witness a letter to Ethel Smyth written in August 1936 . I was pressed by E. M. Forster to be on a committee - they bothered me to take part - endless correspondence : I ...
... Forster failed . But she could not always resist his appeals , witness a letter to Ethel Smyth written in August 1936 . I was pressed by E. M. Forster to be on a committee - they bothered me to take part - endless correspondence : I ...
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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