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Virginia Woolf

Hermione Lee

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#2709 of 3,809 books · #974 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1997).

Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth about her marriage, her feelings for women, her prejudies and obsessions. This is a vivid, close-up portrait, returning to primary sources, and showing Woolf as occupying a distinct, even uneasy position with 'Bloomsbury'. It is a writer's life, illustrating how the concerns of her work arise and develop, and a political life, which establishes Woolf as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist. Incorporating newly discovered sources and illustrated with photos and drawings never used before, this biography offers a comprehensive look at one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781407066240
Topics
Literary biographyFeminismMental illness

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