Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
269
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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... |
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... |
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 |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.