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...
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...
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 Production
Julia Strachey
JS
wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy
's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin
.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
113, 116
After finishing her manuscript, she sent...
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Willa Cather
WC
was a tireless letter-writer, and also kept a diary. She did not want her letters to be published, allegedly because she thought them too spontaneous and unpolished.
Byatt, A. S., and Willa Cather. “Introduction”. A Lost Lady, Virago, p. v - xiv.
vii
Hermione Lee
refers to reading, at...
Textual Production
Penelope Fitzgerald
Her biographer Hermione Lee
has said: she was writing away like mad in her teens and early twenties. Then this powerful stream disappeared underground, until up it comes, this underground river, at the age of...
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 Features
Flora Macdonald Mayor
While spinsters are again perceived as lonely, self-pitying, garrulous, defensive
in the eyes of some, the heroine here defies such a one-sided image. Leonard Woolf
found Mary Jocelyn very reserved...
Textual Features
Willa Cather
Hermione Lee
writes: The best stories are set in the West, and in Pittsburgh. In all of them a solitary figure with artistic talents or inclinations is destroyed by the desert, the philistine wilderness.
Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago.
75
Textual Features
Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee
calls this VW
's novel of friendships, her Bloomsbury novel,
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
269
and in the context of its six characters she recalls Woolf's tracing Bloomsbury to six people who were remarkable for nothing but...
Textual Features
Willa Cather
This summary may suggest to modern ears a cut-and-dried tale of goodies and baddies, but the motivations of all the central characters are mixed, and a large cast of subsidiary characters enacts complexity where a...
Hermione Lee
notes that during this period [p]assionate celebrations of London filled the diaries and letters and spilled over into Mrs. Dalloway.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
474
Reception
Antonia Fraser
This book did better in the USA than in Britain, where feminist thinking had further to go. It won a Wolfson History Award, to the author's delight, and remained the book of which she felt...
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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.