Description
| Product ID: | 9780712674508 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Virginia Woolf |
| Subtitle: | A Biography |
| Authors: | Author: Quentin Bell |
| Page Count: | 576 |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Compelling, moving and entertaining, Quentin Bell's biography was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf''s family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the Hogarth Press; her friendships with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield and Vita Sackvill-West; her struggles to write The Waves and The Years; and the political and personal distresses of her last decade. |
| Imprint Name: | Pimlico |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1996-03-07 |