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 136
... summer . When he did not , she was distinctly disappointed , having hoped at least to have an offer of marriage to her credit . For the first part of the summer holidays Virginia was on her own ; Adrian had gone with Saxon to Bayreuth ...
... summer . When he did not , she was distinctly disappointed , having hoped at least to have an offer of marriage to her credit . For the first part of the summer holidays Virginia was on her own ; Adrian had gone with Saxon to Bayreuth ...
Page 123
... summer of 1926 offered its usual attractions but Virginia , remembering her experience of the previous year did manage to exercise some self - restraint , and was at all events less ex- hausted by this summer than she had been by its ...
... summer of 1926 offered its usual attractions but Virginia , remembering her experience of the previous year did manage to exercise some self - restraint , and was at all events less ex- hausted by this summer than she had been by its ...
Page 154
... summer of 1930 , and it was surely Ethel who made her describe it as " a very violent summer . " Being violent it was , of necessity , exhausting and one afternoon in late August when Maynard and Lydia Keynes had come to Monk's House ...
... summer of 1930 , and it was surely Ethel who made her describe it as " a very violent summer . " Being violent it was , of necessity , exhausting and one afternoon in late August when Maynard and Lydia Keynes had come to Monk's House ...
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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