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Virginia Woolf - A Writer's Life

by Lyndall Gordon
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Virginia Woolf - A life of exploration.

This book offers a unique insight into the private life of Virginia Woolf and presents her as a robust explorer of the complexities of being human. The author portrays Woolf as someone who sought out the fertile aspects of her personal relationships, women's nature, and resistance to power. Gordon also shares Woolf's ideas for biography such as to reveal a life 'laying bare the pebbles on the shore of the soul'. This book is recommended for those who are intrigued by Woolf's life and writing style.

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (1984)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Virginia Woolf - A Writer's Life

by Lyndall Gordon
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ISBN: 9781844081424
Authors: Lyndall Gordon
Publisher: Virago
Date of Publication: 2006-12-14
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.99
(rated by 260 readers)

Description

This prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position'. Instead of the doom-and-death often imposed on women of genius, here is the robust walker and seeker for what was fertile in her intimacies, in women's nature, and in resistance to power. This edition brings out her ideas for biography to fall on a life 'like a roll of heavy waters... laying bare the pebbles on the shore of the soul'.
 

Virginia Woolf - A life of exploration.

This book offers a unique insight into the private life of Virginia Woolf and presents her as a robust explorer of the complexities of being human. The author portrays Woolf as someone who sought out the fertile aspects of her personal relationships, women's nature, and resistance to power. Gordon also shares Woolf's ideas for biography such as to reveal a life 'laying bare the pebbles on the shore of the soul'. This book is recommended for those who are intrigued by Woolf's life and writing style.

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (1984)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.