Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909
by Virginia Woolf
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Covering the years 1897-1909, these journals complete the autobiographical sequence of Virginia Woolf's diary and letters and provide a picture of the circumstances in which she taught herself her craft. Many of the incidents of these years were to profoundly influence the rest of her life and were to become recurring themes in her novels: the death of her father, trips to Spain, Italy and Greece, and first encounters with those who were to form the Bloomsbury group.Tags
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A very well documented edition of Virginia Woolf (more properly Virginia Stephens) diaries. Hermione Lee provides a detailed and lengthy introduction that prepares the reader for the details of the diaries. The young years are also years of trauma and illness and discovery. A superbly done history of the formative years of on of Modernism best writers.
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Virginia Woolf was born in London, England on January 25, 1882. She was the daughter of the prominent literary critic Leslie Stephen. Her early education was obtained at home through her parents and governesses. After death of her father in 1904, her family moved to Bloomsbury, where they formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of show more philosophers, writers, and artists. During her lifetime, she wrote both fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels included Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Between the Acts. Her non-fiction books included The Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Having had periods of depression throughout her life and fearing a final mental breakdown from which she might not recover, Woolf drowned herself on March 28, 1941 at the age of 59. Her husband published part of her farewell letter to deny that she had taken her life because she could not face the terrible times of war. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Virginia Woolf; Leslie Stephen; Julia Stephen; Vanessa Bell; Thoby Stephen
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- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 828.91203 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1900- English miscellaneous writings 1900-1999 English miscellaneous writings 1900-1945 Diaries,journals, notebooks, reminiscences
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- PR6045 .O72 .Z473 — Language and Literature English English Literature 1900-1960
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