Virginia Woolf

• Author(s): Hermione Lee,
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pages: 892
• ISBN_10: 0099732513
  ISBN_13: 9780099732518
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Feminist , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century ,

Description:... 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.