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 133
... Forster was , I think , happier with his own sex . He found Virginia's feminism dis- turbing and felt that there was something a little too sharp , a little too critical , about her . " I don't think , " he said , " that she cared for ...
... Forster was , I think , happier with his own sex . He found Virginia's feminism dis- turbing and felt that there was something a little too sharp , a little too critical , about her . " I don't think , " he said , " that she cared for ...
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... 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 Henry ...
... 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 Henry ...
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... 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 survivor ...
... 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 survivor ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Appendix B Report on Teaching at Morley College | 202 |
Appendix E The Dreadnought Hoax | 213 |
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