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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... sister's calm honesty , her grave assumption of responsibility for the younger ones , her quiet un- ceasing benevolence , her practicality and her good sense . Also , from a very early age , she understood something of the magic of ...
... sister's calm honesty , her grave assumption of responsibility for the younger ones , her quiet un- ceasing benevolence , her practicality and her good sense . Also , from a very early age , she understood something of the magic of ...
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... sister been to Canada to see her long absent sister who is residing there . We hope that no pangs of jealousy crossed her mind when she saw her sister so comfortably settled with a husband when she herself is search- ing the wide world ...
... sister been to Canada to see her long absent sister who is residing there . We hope that no pangs of jealousy crossed her mind when she saw her sister so comfortably settled with a husband when she herself is search- ing the wide world ...
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... sister - in - law , instead of which , such is the perversity of things , that affair seemed to be cooling off . In fact there was a moment - or so I suspect - when Vanessa feared that her much loved but agonisingly exasperating sister ...
... sister - in - law , instead of which , such is the perversity of things , that affair seemed to be cooling off . In fact there was a moment - or so I suspect - when Vanessa feared that her much loved but agonisingly exasperating sister ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Appendix B Report on Teaching at Morley College | 202 |
Appendix E The Dreadnought Hoax | 213 |
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