Virginia Woolf: A Portrait
Viviane Forrester
Abstract
This portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. The book draws on revelations about Woolf that often remain buried and carefully applies them to a narrative of her development and influence. The book blends recently unearthed documents, key primary sources, and personal interviews with Woolf's relatives and other acquaintances to render in unmatched detail Woolf's complicated relationship with her husband, Leonard; her father, Leslie Stephen; and her half-sister, Vanessa Bell. The text connects these figures to Woolf's m ... More
Keywords: Virginia Woolf, Leonard, Leslie Stephen, Vanessa Bell, mental breakdown, Virginia seule, Virginia alone
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231153560 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231153560.001.0001 |
