Virginia Woolf An Inner Life

Name: Virginia Woolf An Inner Life
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ISBN: 9780151011438

ISBN-10: 0151011435

ISBN-13: 9780151011438

Edition: 2005

Authors: Julia Briggs

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Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts the writing back at the center of Woolf's life, reads that life through her work, and mines the novels themselves to create a compelling new form of biography. Analyzing Woolf's own commentary on the creative process through her letters, diaries, and essays, Julia Briggs has produced a book that is a convincing, moving portrait of an artist, as well as a profound meditation on the nature of creativity. …

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgements



Beginning: The Voyage Out (1915)



Into the Night: Night and Day (1919)



'Our Press Arrived on Tuesday': Monday or Tuesday (1921)



In Search of Jacob: Jacob's Room (1922)



A Woman Connects: The Common Reader (1925)



'What a Lark! What a Plunge!': Mrs Dalloway (1925)



Writing Itself: To the Lighthouse (1927)



'The Secret of Life is...': Orlando (1928)



To the Women of the Future: A Room of One's Own (1929)



'Into Deep Waters': The Waves (1931)



The Years of The Years: The Second Common Reader (1932), Flush (1933), The Years (1937)



Attacking Hitler in England: Three Guineas (1938)



Life Writing: Roger Fry (1940), 'A Sketch of the Past'



The Last of England: Between the Acts (1941)


Epilogue


Notes


Index