Virginia Woolf
Author(s): Hermione Lee
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 is a revelation - informed, intelligent and moving.
General Information
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.614
- : 01 September 1997
- : 200mm X 131mm X 41mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Hermione Lee
- : New edition
- : English
- : 600
- : illustrations facsimiles, geneal. table, portraits