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Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | Later reprints often appeared as The Common Reader, First Series. VW
took her title from a formulation of Samuel Johnson
's, meaning that non-specialist, non-academic reader to whose taste, said Johnson, he was always... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Hermione Lee
calls this VW
's novel of friendships, her Bloomsbury novel, Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 269 |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron
's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie
had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 75-6 |
Performance of text | Virginia Woolf | VW
worked long and hard on the lengthy novel which finally became The Years. Its genesis goes back to her speech of 21 January 1931 at the London and National Society for Women's Service |
names | Virginia Woolf | Her first Christian name, never used, was given in memory of her mother's sister, who died shortly before Virginia's birth. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 99 |
Health | Virginia Woolf | Virginia was thirteen: this death ended her childhood and provoked her first nervous breakdown. She said later that her mother's death was the greatest disaster that could happen, Woolf, Virginia. Moments of Being. Editor Schulkind, Jeanne, Chatto and Windus for Sussex University Press. 40 |
Violence | Virginia Woolf | VW
did not discuss this incident specifically until the last years of her life. Hermione Lee
, who considers the matter as fully as possible, argues that it would be rash to ignore or belittle... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Both Virginia and Vanessa felt that they were uneducated, and VWfelt intellectually deprived, regretting all her life that she had never competed with other children. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 32-3 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | (Vanessa launched a parallel meeting for artists on Fridays: the Friday Club
.) VW
wrote that the Thursday evenings were the germ of all that has since come to be called—in newspapers, in novels, in... |
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