Virginia Woolf A Literary Life
This book tells the story of Virginia Woolf's literary career. It emphasises the importance of her ownership of the Hogarth Press, whereby she gained the freedom to write as she pleased. This made possible a career of extraordinary formal innovations. Each of her books was unlike every other. Her career was a series of different choices, statements and masks. This book attempts to discover why, at each point in her career, she chose to write as she did.
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Virginia Woolf A Literary Life
This book tells the story of Virginia Woolf's literary career. It emphasises the importance of her ownership of the Hogarth Press, whereby she gained the freedom to write as she pleased. This made possible a career of extraordinary formal innovations. Each of her books was unlike every other. Her career was a series of different choices, statements and masks. This book attempts to discover why, at each point in her career, she chose to write as she did.
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Virginia Woolf A Literary Life

Virginia Woolf A Literary Life

by J. Mepham
Virginia Woolf A Literary Life

Virginia Woolf A Literary Life

by J. Mepham

Paperback(1991)

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This book tells the story of Virginia Woolf's literary career. It emphasises the importance of her ownership of the Hogarth Press, whereby she gained the freedom to write as she pleased. This made possible a career of extraordinary formal innovations. Each of her books was unlike every other. Her career was a series of different choices, statements and masks. This book attempts to discover why, at each point in her career, she chose to write as she did.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333464717
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 12/02/1991
Series: Literary Lives (Paperback)
Edition description: 1991
Pages: 222
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables - Introduction: The Will to Write - 1882-1903 Virginia Stephen becomes a Writer - 1904-9 Journalist - 1910-15 Moratorium and Crisis - 1916-21 A Press of One's Own - 1922-24 Her Own Voice - 1925-27 Modernist Fictions - 1928-31 Androgyny and the End of the Novel - 1932-37 The Outsider - 1938-40 Life-Writing - 1941 The Illusion Fails - Conclusion - List of Abbreviations - Notes
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