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 109
... Thoby and Adrian fell into a violent dispute concerning the Portsmouth Road : was it macadamised beyond Hindhead or was it not ? This occupied them for some days , * though Thoby was sufficiently sanguine - or social - to return once ...
... Thoby and Adrian fell into a violent dispute concerning the Portsmouth Road : was it macadamised beyond Hindhead or was it not ? This occupied them for some days , * though Thoby was sufficiently sanguine - or social - to return once ...
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... Thoby and Adrian stay two days , then re- turn to London and leave for Trieste on 10 August . Guests include George Duckworth , Hester Ritchie and Emma Vaughan Virginia , Vanessa and Violet Dickinson leave London for Greece ; they meet ...
... Thoby and Adrian stay two days , then re- turn to London and leave for Trieste on 10 August . Guests include George Duckworth , Hester Ritchie and Emma Vaughan Virginia , Vanessa and Violet Dickinson leave London for Greece ; they meet ...
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... Thoby . For some reason I did not answer , that he was like Thoby . I have always been foolish about that . I did not like any Bell to be like Thoby , partly through snobbishness I suppose ; nor do I think that Julian was like Thoby ...
... Thoby . For some reason I did not answer , that he was like Thoby . I have always been foolish about that . I did not like any Bell to be like Thoby , partly through snobbishness I suppose ; nor do I think that Julian was like Thoby ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Appendix B Report on Teaching at Morley College | 202 |
Appendix E The Dreadnought Hoax | 213 |
Copyright | |
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