Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life - Paperback

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Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life - Paperback

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life - Paperback

by Lyndall Gordon
$26.99
$26.99

Book Overview

"[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations."--Carolyn Heilbrun, The New York Times Book Review This "original, intuitive, and even exciting" (The New Yorker) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art--her childhood, her relationships with her father and sister, her marriage, and her descents into madness.
ISBN9780393322057
Author Lyndall Gordon
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2001
Edition3
LanguageENG- English
Pages362
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Lyndall Gordon

Lyndall Gordon is a British writer and academic popular for her literary biographies on notable persons such as Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë, and T. S. Eliot. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Cape Town and later went on to graduate with a doctorate from Columbia University in New York City. Her work has earned her many awards, including the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Cheltenham Prize for Literature. Gordon is now a Senior Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

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