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, 1983, pp. 32 -56.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Mary Lavin | Sixty-four of ML
's short stories were published in magazines before most of them were collected in volumes. She was a frequent contributor to Atlantic Monthly, the Dublin Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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, 1989. 72, 82 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 372 |
| 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. Schulkind, JeanneEditor , Chatto and Windus for Sussex University Press, 1976. 40 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Anne Enright | Hermione Lee
, reviewing, saluted Gina's, or Enright's, voice as wry, disabused, reckless, candid, funny, and Gina's female relationships (with her mother, her sister, Evie) as discomforting, awkward and delicately handled. Lee, Hermione. “The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright—review”. theguardian.com. |
| Literary responses | Penelope Fitzgerald | The introduction by Hermione Lee
encapsulates PF
's critical approach by saying she leads us right to the heart of the matter. Her publishers boldly call the volume one of the most engaging books about... |
| Literary responses | Susan Hill | Critic Hermione Lee
, reviewing the collection for the Guardian, praised SH
's tender attention to detail, and likened her to L. P. Hartley
and Elizabeth Bowen
. Lee, Hermione. “Like Buttons in a Box”. Guardian Unlimited. |
| Literary responses | Virginia Woolf | 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... |
| Literary responses | Pat Barker | Hermione Lee
, reviewing this book for the Guardian Weekly, found PB
's style was sometimes jerky, and that some of the links back to the previous novel were clumsily made. But she applauded... |
| Literary responses | A. S. Byatt | A review by Hermione Lee
called this book a mosaic of texts, parodies, translations, allusions and fragmentary quotations. . . . an addict's book about the dangers of literary addiction. Lee, Hermione. “Losing the Thread in the Labyrinth of Life”. Guardian Weekly, p. 18. 18 |
| Literary responses | Doris Lessing | The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes, Parker, Derek. “On the Side”. The Author, No. 2, pp. 86 - 8. 87 |
| Literary responses | Willa Cather | A review by Randolph Bourne
in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann
in England. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Tennant, StephenEditor , Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 96 |
| Literary responses | Julia O'Faolain | This novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Hermione Lee
praised it in the Observer for presenting the inter-relationship between family and national history, while Robert Nye
in the Guardian called it one of the... |
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