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 93
... writer for a long time . That is to say she had been reading voraciously and writing assiduously . Her journals during these years consist , almost always , of careful essays written as though for publication : attempts to describe a ...
... writer for a long time . That is to say she had been reading voraciously and writing assiduously . Her journals during these years consist , almost always , of careful essays written as though for publication : attempts to describe a ...
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... writing - which was prompted by glancing at what K. M. said about her writing in The Dove's Nest . But I only glanced . She said a good deal about feeling things deeply : also about being pure , which I won't criticise , though of ...
... writing - which was prompted by glancing at what K. M. said about her writing in The Dove's Nest . But I only glanced . She said a good deal about feeling things deeply : also about being pure , which I won't criticise , though of ...
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... writing of Mrs Dalloway , was of a kind to interest her greatly , for his ideas were to some extent congruous with those which she had tried to formulate in Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown . The difficulty about writing was that it has to be ...
... writing of Mrs Dalloway , was of a kind to interest her greatly , for his ideas were to some extent congruous with those which she had tried to formulate in Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown . The difficulty about writing was that it has to be ...
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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