Virginia Woolf
$60.97
- Paperback
944 pages
- Release Date
7 November 1997
Summary
‘It’s what many people have been waiting for, a balanced and sensible study… This is a very good biography’ — Doris Lessing, Sunday Times
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 wom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099732518 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099732513 |
| Author: | Hermione Lee |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 944 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 1997 |
| Weight: | 678g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 49mm |
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Critics Review
An outstanding achievement…superb
An outstanding achievement…superb – Selena Hastings * Sunday Telegraph *
It is a lasting, and even a great, book. These are not terms one gets to use often, or should ever use lightly – Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
Lee’s book is not only very good, but very necessary – Penelope Fitzgerald
One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful * Financial Times *
About The Author
Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee is a biographer, Professor Emeritus of English Literature and former President of Wolfson College, Oxford. Her writings include biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006), Penelope Fitzgerald (2013) and Tom Stoppard (2020). She is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature and in 2024 was made a Dame Grand Cross (GBE) for services to literary scholarship and literature. She lives in Oxford.
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