Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/10/1997
ISBN: 9780099732518
Length: 912 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 48mm x 129mm
Weight: 979g
RRP: £16.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/10/1997
ISBN: 9780099732518
Length: 912 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 48mm x 129mm
Weight: 979g
RRP: £16.99
An outstanding achievement...superb
It is a lasting, and even a great, book. These are not terms one gets to use often, or should ever use lightly
Lee's book is not only very good, but very necessary
One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful