Virginia Woolf : interviews and recollections

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Label

Virginia Woolf : interviews and recollections

Title remainder

interviews and recollections

Statement of responsibility

edited by J.H. Stape

Contributor

• Stape, J. H., (John Henry)

Subject

• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
• Erlebnisbericht
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Friends and associates
• Woolf, Virginia
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
• Biography
• Quelle
• Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
• Friendship
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
• Quelle
• 1900 - 1999
• Erlebnisbericht
• Zeitgenossen
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Zeitgenossen
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Novelists, English

Genre

• Biography
• Aufsatzsammlung

Language

eng

Summary

• A coherent view of so extraordinarily chameleon a temperament and talent as Virginia Woolf's is, of course, almost impossible. If Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse needs 'fifty pairs of eyes' to take in a woman as simple as Mrs. Ramsay, even more pairs seem desirable for focusing on Virginia Woolf. The difficulty of a balanced viewpoint for some of her memoirists, a demanding enough task at the best of times, was compounded by the enthusiasm with which she sometimes donned a mask and by conversation whose notorious brilliance veered at moments towards the flamboyant, the wildly inaccurate, or the cruel. To penetrate this mask, Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections provides multifaceted perspectives on Woolf as observed and remembered by relatives, close friends, acquaintances, and fellow writers from Vanessa Bell, Arnold Bennett, and Edith Sitwell to Marguerite Yourcenar, Rose Macaulay, and Stephen Spender
• Gathered from widely scattered sources, the forty-one pieces collected here give an intimate and compelling portrait of a fascinating individual whom many consider one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Covering her famous lectures at Cambridge, her role in the Hogarth Press, and her presence in the literary and social world of her day as well as her roles as sister, wife, and friend, this varied collection sheds light on the public and private personalities of Virginia Woolf the subtle poetic novelist, the devoted friend, and the influential and successful publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

ICvR

Dewey number

• 823/.912
• B

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PR6045.O72

LC item number

Z89235 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography