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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... look at five generations - it seems that a certain kind of beauty appears and reappears , sometimes vaguely , sometimes strikingly reincarnated from avatar to avatar . This type lies dormant in the men of the family to re - emerge in ...
... look at five generations - it seems that a certain kind of beauty appears and reappears , sometimes vaguely , sometimes strikingly reincarnated from avatar to avatar . This type lies dormant in the men of the family to re - emerge in ...
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... look around , to look up - to look , for example , at the sky . " But she also needed , if she were to cope with the exacting task of describing that which she had seen in the heavens , to be well . In 1913 she had not been strong ...
... look around , to look up - to look , for example , at the sky . " But she also needed , if she were to cope with the exacting task of describing that which she had seen in the heavens , to be well . In 1913 she had not been strong ...
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... Look how I'm praised . And then thought No , I'm on the top of the wave : & it's not kind to thrust that sort of thing upon people who aren't yet recognised . So I said nothing about it . But I wanted him to stay . And then again I felt ...
... Look how I'm praised . And then thought No , I'm on the top of the wave : & it's not kind to thrust that sort of thing upon people who aren't yet recognised . So I said nothing about it . But I wanted him to stay . And then again I felt ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Appendix B Report on Teaching at Morley College | 202 |
Appendix E The Dreadnought Hoax | 213 |
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