Download or read book Art and Affection written by Panthea Reid and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50 after her death, Virginia Woolf remains a haunting figure, a woman whose life was both brilliantly successful and profoundly tragic. This brilliant new biography weaves together diverse strands of Woolf's life and career, offering a dazzlingly complete portrait brimming with new revelations. 64 halftone illustrations.
Download or read book Library of Luminaries Jane Austen written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen's personal letters outline the intimate details of the literary icon's life—her childhood on a farm, the writing of her first novella, her marital woes, the inspiration behind Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and more. Brimming with delightful details like the objects Austen kept on her desk and how much Emma originally sold for, this beautiful ebook is a lovely new way to celebrate Austen's legacy.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Julia Briggs and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Briggs has written a chronological exploration of Woolf's life that reads her life through her books, using the novels to create a new form of biography. Each chapter is illustrated with a sample of Woolf's original manuscript.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Gillian Gill and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies--of strength, style, and creativity--shaped Woolf's path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf's French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Th r se de L'Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf's aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sisters Stella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men--united in their love for one another and their disregard for women--into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice.
Download or read book Imagining Virginia Woolf written by Maria DiBattista and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answers the question, 'how does one read an author', by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. This book provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works and in the minds of her readers
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Viviane Forrester and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester weaves a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf, her writing, and her world.
Download or read book The Moth and the Star a Biography of Virginia Woolf written by Aileen Pippett and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Frances Spalding and published by National Portrait Gallery. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 10 July to 26 October 2014.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Louise A. DeSalvo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this amazing odyssey of two black women from the 1930s to the present, all the storytelling gifts of a brilliant Pulitzer Prize -- winning writer are abundantly displayed. When we first meet Baby, she's one of six black children abandoned by their parents during the Depression. They are roadwalkers -- homeless wanderers across the rural South, leading a dangerous, almost enchanted life. One by one they are saved, lost, or simply disappear, until only Baby and a brother are left, living off the land -- a primitive gypsy existence hauntingly described. Finally Baby is captured -- almost like a wild animal -- by the white farm manager of an old plantation where the children have been hiding. He sends her to an orphanage in New Orleans, where she guards the rich mythic content of her wandering against the invasive kindness of the nuns by covering the walls with strange, brilliant drawings of flowers and animals. We next see Baby decades later, through the eyes of her daughter, Nanda, who at thirty-six looks back at her own childhood. Baby and Nanda move into the middle class through Baby's eccentrically successful career -- first as a seamstress, then as a designer of dresses for rich white women. Raised a princess in the protective circle of Baby's magic, Nanda in her teens is suddenly catapulted into the white world when she is sent off to integrate a white Catholic girls' school in the East. Seeing herself as her mother saw herself -- alone in an alien place, Nanda finds an entirely different means of survival. A rich and wonderfully fresh -- often astonishing -- evocation of the black experience in the South, seen through the lives of two fascinating women.
Download or read book Flush written by Virginia Woolf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning's life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by James King and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1995 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between Virginia Woolf's troubled life and her writing, reveals her struggle with depression and use of writing to capture the joy of existence, and describes her focus on subjects she knew best--destruction, death, and fragility
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Hermione Lee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Nigel Nicolson and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recalls the ties between his family and the novelist and childhood moments spent with her, discussing her walks around his ancestral home, the progression of her well-known works, and her philosophy towards women's issues and war.
Download or read book Virginia Woolf A to Z written by Mark Hussey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her revolutionary novels and essays have inspired generations of feminists, and her life has aroused both interest and speculation. In Virginia Woolf A-Z, the author's works and autobiographical writings are set in the context of her infamous social milieu. Eight "family" trees map out the complicated relationships and living arrangements of the Bloomsbury Group, and a chronology gives a quick overview of the major events of Woolf's life. With over 1,300 entries and fifty illustrations, this desktop companion is the ideal antidote to those afraid of Virginia Woolf, and valuable beyond measure to those already familiar with her work.
Download or read book Woman of Letters written by Phyllis Rose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1986-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Granite and Rainbow written by Mitchell Alexander Leaska and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the English novelist, including the harsh realities of her early life, her descent into madness, and her parents' troubled marriage
Download or read book Flush written by Virginia Woolf and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
