Her first Christian name, never used, was given in memory of her mother's sister, who died shortly before Virginia's birth.
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Ginia was her earliest family nickname. She later gave herself many more, using different...
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.
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and she remained preoccupied by her...
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.
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She also, however, commented caustically on the advantage...
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...
Leisure and Society
Virginia Woolf
With Adrian Stephen, Duncan Grant
, Guy Ridley
, and Anthony Buxton
, she toured the premier battleship HMS Dreadnought impersonating the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. Virginia was disguised as Prince Mendax (Latin...
Residence
Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee
notes that during this period [p]assionate celebrations of London filled the diaries and letters and spilled over into Mrs. Dalloway.
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Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
The Hogarth Press
began publishing Freud in 1922, and continued through the following years, mainly through their highly successful production of the International Psycho-Analytical Library.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
Hermione Lee
likens the extraordinary impact of this juvenile work to that of an archaeological dig which reveals the rooms and furnishings and small ordinary objects of a legendary monarch, all as fresh as on...
Textual Features
Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee
reads the story as an imagined meeting between the Stephen sisters of Bloomsbury and their alternative selves (as they would have been if their lives had remained in the track mapped out for...
Textual Features
Virginia Woolf
She classed Sickert as a literary painter, even while admitting that words could not touch or grasp the core of his paintings. Hermione Lee
sees Sickert
's paintings of squalid London interiors as a major...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee
points out that in this year—a typical one, though broken by illness—Woolf's productivity included making final pre-publication revisions to a novel and an essay collection, beginning work on another novel, writing eight...
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Texts
Woolf, Virginia, and Hermione Lee. A Room of One’s Own; and, Three Guineas. Chatto and Windus; Hogarth Press, 1984.
Lee, Hermione. “All Reputation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
24
, No. 20, pp. 19-20.
Lee, Hermione. “Estates of mind”. Guardian Unlimited.
Lee, Hermione et al. “Foreword”. Hyde Park Gate News. The Stephen Family Newspaper, edited by Gill Lowe and Gill Lowe, Hesperus Press, 2005, p. vii - x.
Lee, Hermione. “From the Margins: Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, pp. Review 1 - 3.
Lee, Hermione. “Like Buttons in a Box”. Guardian Unlimited.
Lee, Hermione. “Losing the Thread in the Labyrinth of Life”. Guardian Weekly, p. 18.
Lee, Hermione. “The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright—review”. theguardian.com.
Lee, Hermione. “The greater truths of war”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 38-9.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.