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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... critics , and she told herself that she would not mind , or would not mind very much . She devised a plan to guard ... criticism ; if they thought Jacob merely a clever experiment she would produce Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street . Mrs ...
... critics , and she told herself that she would not mind , or would not mind very much . She devised a plan to guard ... criticism ; if they thought Jacob merely a clever experiment she would produce Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street . Mrs ...
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... criticism had been the only criticism that had ever been worth having in all his life . Flush appeared in October 1933. It was , as she had foreseen , a success ; but on this occasion she feared success almost as much as she usually ...
... criticism had been the only criticism that had ever been worth having in all his life . Flush appeared in October 1933. It was , as she had foreseen , a success ; but on this occasion she feared success almost as much as she usually ...
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... criticism , but that those criticisms were for the most part so mild and so limited . For her manner of writing was not one to arouse the enthusiasm of young people in the ' thirties . To many she must have appeared as an angular ...
... criticism , but that those criticisms were for the most part so mild and so limited . For her manner of writing was not one to arouse the enthusiasm of young people in the ' thirties . To many she must have appeared as an angular ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Appendix B Report on Teaching at Morley College | 202 |
Appendix E The Dreadnought Hoax | 213 |
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