Louise DeSalvo

Standard Name: DeSalvo, Louise

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Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Critic Louise DeSalvo calls A Sketch of the Pastthe bravest writing task that she had ever set out to accomplish.
DeSalvo, Louise. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work. Beacon Press.
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VW is, she says, a pioneer in exploring the effects of her abuse...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
Composition of The Voyage Out stretched over nine years, and VW produced several versions of the text, including those she burned. Scholars Louise DeSalvo and Elizabeth Heine , working separately on materials in the Berg Collection
Violence Virginia Woolf
Mark Hussey writes that the incest that Woolf suffered has been variously euphemized by several of her biographers and other critics.
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
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Hermione Lee, who sees George as one of the tyrants in VW 's...

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Texts

Woolf, Virginia. “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn”. Twentieth Century Literature, edited by Susan M. Squier and Louise DeSalvo, Vol.
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, No. 3/4, pp. 237-69.
Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Editors DeSalvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, Hutchinson, 1984.
Sackville-West, Vita. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Editors DeSalvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, William Morrow, 1985.
DeSalvo, Louise. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work. Beacon Press, 1989.