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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... became a most respectable clergyman . As a public man Master James became identified with two great causes . Both resulted from a sojourn in the West Indies . Here there was already a family connection begun by his uncle William ; here ...
... became a most respectable clergyman . As a public man Master James became identified with two great causes . Both resulted from a sojourn in the West Indies . Here there was already a family connection begun by his uncle William ; here ...
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... became increasingly obvious that she was not simply backward ; there was something seriously wrong . Leslie began to suspect that Mrs Thackeray's madness had been inherited by her granddaughter . How bad her case might be it was too ...
... became increasingly obvious that she was not simply backward ; there was something seriously wrong . Leslie began to suspect that Mrs Thackeray's madness had been inherited by her granddaughter . How bad her case might be it was too ...
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... became painfully excitable and nervous and then intolerably depressed . She became terrified of people , blushed scarlet if spoken to and was unable to face a stranger in the street . Dr Seton , the Stephens ' family doctor , * put a ...
... became painfully excitable and nervous and then intolerably depressed . She became terrified of people , blushed scarlet if spoken to and was unable to face a stranger in the street . Dr Seton , the Stephens ' family doctor , * put a ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Appendix B Report on Teaching at Morley College | 202 |
Appendix E The Dreadnought Hoax | 213 |
Copyright | |
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