Spydus Search Results - Subject: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 (Keywords)

Rural hours : the country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann / Harriet Baker.

1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman's cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers' retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming 'a writer again'. 'Rural Hours' tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it.
Author: Baker, Harriet
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2024.
256 pages ; 24 cm

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Virginia Woolf / Alexandra Harris.

Following the chronology of Virginia Woolf's life, this text considers each of the novels in context, gives due prominence to her dazzlingly inventive essays, traces the contentious course of her afterlife and shows why, 70 years after her death, Woolf continues to haunt and inspire us.
Author: Harris, Alexandra, 1981-
Published: London : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
191 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

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To the river : a journey beneath the surface / Olivia Laing.

'To the River' is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week, over 60 years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
Author: Laing, Olivia
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2011.
283 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 942.2'5 - Available - 30111045265203

Virginia Woolf / Alexandra Harris.

Following the chronology of Virginia Woolf's life, this text considers each of the novels in context, gives due prominence to her dazzlingly inventive essays, traces the contentious course of her afterlife and shows why, 70 years after her death, Woolf continues to haunt and inspire us.
Author: Harris, Alexandra, 1981-
Published: London : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
191 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 823.912 - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 30111045333183

Selected letters / Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf is one of the great correspondents. This volume displays not only Woolf's courage and brilliance, her generosity and love of gossip, but also her genius for close and enduring friendship.
Author: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Published: London : Vintage Classic, 2008.
496 p.

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Selected diaries / Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1915 and her death in 1941 she recorded her thoughts with grace, courage, honesty and wit. The result is one of the greatest diaries in the English language.
Author: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Published: London : Vintage Classic, 2008.
528 p.

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Mrs. Woolf and the servants : an intimate history of domestic life in Bloomsbury / Alison Light.

Author: Light, Alison, 1955-
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.
xxiii, 376 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

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Leonard Woolf / Victoria Glendinning.

Being a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, Leonard Woolf was a formidable figure in his own right, first as a civil administrator in Ceylon, then as a writer, leading light of the Fabian society and publisher of T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Katherine Mansfield and of course Virginia Woolf.
Author: Glendinning, Victoria
Published: London : Pocket, 2007.
528 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

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Mrs Woolf and the servants / Alison Light.

Using Virginia Woolf and four of her servants as a jumping off point, Alison Light explores the extraordinary world of the domestic servant in the first half of the 20th century.
Author: Light, Alison, 1955-
Published: London : Penguin Fig Tree, 2007.
xxiii, 376 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

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Snapshots of Bloomsbury : the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell / Maggie Humm.

Maggie Humm makes available a collection of photographs that cast a new light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, as well as the historical, cultural and artistic milieu of their circle in Bloomsbury. These photographs pose an important challenge to language-centred critques of modernism.
Author: Humm, Maggie
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
Published: ©2006
x, 226 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 29 cm

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Leonard Woolf / Victoria Glendinning.

Being a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, Leonard Woolf was a formidable figure in his own right, first as a civil administrator in Ceylon, then as a writer, leading light of the Fabian society and publisher of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Robert Graves, Katherine Mansfield and of course Virginia Woolf.
Author: Glendinning, Victoria
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2006.
464 p. ; 24 cm.

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Before Leonard : the early suitors of Virginia Woolf / Sarah M. Hall.

Virginia Woolf's life and work continue to fascinate. Following on the heels of the discovery of new unpublished work by Woolf, as well as Stephen Daldry's acclaimed film 'The Hours', this book takes an illuminating look at a previously unexplored dimension of her life.
Author: Hall, Sarah M.
Published: London : Peter Owen, 2006.
304 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

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The Cambridge introduction to Virginia Woolf / Jane Goldman.

This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work. It covers the major works in detail, including 'To the Lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'The Waves' and the key short stories.
Author: Goldman, Jane, 1960-
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
xi, 157 p. ; 23 cm.
Cambridge introductions to literature

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Virginia Woolf : an inner life / Julia Briggs.

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.
Author: Briggs, Julia
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2005.
xiv, 527 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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The letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf / edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska ; introduction by Mitchell Leaska.

Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf met in 1922, and began an intense and passionate relationship which lasted until Woolf's suicide in 1941. Their correspondence of over 500 letters leaves no aspect of their lives untouched.
Author: Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962
Published: San Francisco, Calif. : Cleis ; London : Turnaround [distributor], [2004]
448 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell : remembering St. Ives / Marion Dell and Marion Whybrow.

The theme of this book is that the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell were influenced all their lives by their St Ives childhood. It paints a background picture of the place, and of their parents and family, using extracts from diaries, newpapers, family photographs, letters and memoirs.
Author: Dell, Marion
Published: Padstow : Tabb House Originals, 2003.
xii, 194 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), geneal. table, maps ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

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From the lighthouse to Monk's House : a guide to Virginia Woolf's literary landscapes / Katherine C. Hill-Miller.

There are five places which intimately link Virginia Woolf's life and work: Cornwall, London, Kent, Cambridge and Rodmell, Sussex. The author visited each of these to compare the real places with their depictions with the aim of introducing the reader to Woolf's books and themes.
Author: Hill-Miller, Katherine
Published: London : Duckworth, 2001.
viii, 328 p. ; 24 cm.

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Virginia Woolf / Mary Ann Caws.

This short biography of Virginia Woolf contains overs 100 images, allowing an immediate understanding of her life, family, friends, home and work.
Author: Caws, Mary Ann
Published: London : Penguin, 2001.
[vii], 136p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Illustrated lives

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Virginia Woolf / Nigel Nicolson.

This biography of Virginia Woolf is unusual in two respects. It is written by someone who knew her well when he was a child, and it closely investigates her attitudes to feminism and war.
Author: Nicolson, Nigel
Published: London : Phoenix, 2001.
ix, 165p. : geneal. table, ports. (some col.) ; 20 cm.

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Virginia Woolf

Author: Nicolson, Nigel
Published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.
Book.

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Virginia Woolf / Linden Peach.

In this book the author addresses the cryptographic nature of the writings of Virginia Woolf in respect to politics and history, approaching each of her novels through theoretical frameworks provided by contemporary social theorists.
Author: Peach, Linden
Published: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000.
viii, 247p. ; 22 cm.
Critical issues

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The Cambridge companion to Virginia Woolf / edited by Sue Roe and Susan Sellers.

This collection of essays addresses the full range of Virginia Woolf's intellectual perspectives - literary, artistic, philosophical and political. The progress of Woolf's thinking is revealed from Bloomsbury aestheticism to modernism.
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
xxii, 286p. ; 23 cm.
Cambridge companions to literature

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Virginia Woolf's London : a guide to Bloomsbury and beyond / Jean Moorcroft Wilson.

Virginia Woolf was born in London and lived there all her life. This book looks at her various homes in Kensington, Richmond and Bloomsbury, as well as her Sussex country retreats and explains how the buildings and streets were far more to her than a home.
Author: Wilson, Jean Moorcroft
Published: London : Tauris Parke, 2000.
256p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

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Virginia Woolf icon / Brenda R. Silver.

This is a text about Virginia Woolf: the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear.
Author: Silver, Brenda R., 1942-
Published: Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
xx, 353 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Women in culture and society

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Virginia Woolf : To the lighthouse, The waves / edited by Jane Goldman.

This guide includes a linking narrative which puts the critical extracts in context, highlights important concepts, explains shifts in critical thinking, and looks to Woolf's place in the literary canon.
Published: Cambridge : Icon, 1997.
191p. ; 20 cm.
Icon critical guides

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Virginia Woolf / Hermione Lee.

Hermione Lee attempts to find the truth about the life of one of the great writers of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf, looking at her art, her madness and her death.
Author: Lee, Hermione, 1948-
Published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1996.
xi, 892p., [24]p. of plates : ill., facsims., geneal. table, ports. ; 25 cm.

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Vita & Virginia : adapted from the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West / by Eileen Atkins.

This dramatization of the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West provides insight into the lives of two artists over 20 years up to Woolf's suicide in 1941.
Author: Atkins, Eileen
Published: London : Samuel French, c1995.
42p. ; 22cm.

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A very close conspiracy : Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf / Jane Dunn.

The lives of Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa Bell, embodied opposites of human nature. The former was dedicated to the life of the mind and imagination, the latter to sensuous and sensual experience. This book shows how the two sisters developed and enriched each other's lives.
Author: Dunn, Jane
Published: London : Cape, 1990.
xiii,338p.,[32]p. of plates : ill(some col.), ports.(some col.) ; 25cm.

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A moment's liberty : the shorter diary of Virginia Woolf / edited by Anne Olivier Bell ; introduction by Quentin Bell.

An abridged one-volume edition of the diaries of Virginia Woolf. They span the years from 1915 till a few days before her death in 1941. She describes with perception and lively wit public events, gossip about her famous circle of friends and the difficulties she endured with her art.
Author: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Published: London : Hogarth, 1990.
xii,516p. ; 24cm.

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Congenial spirits : the selected letters of Virginia Woolf / edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks.

A one volume selection of Virginia Woolf's letters, including eleven which have not previously been published. This collection ranges from notes written during her childhood to correspondence with other literary figures right up to the year of her death.
Published: London : Hogarth, 1989.
xviii,472p. ; 24cm.

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