The Diary of Virginia Woolf (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: 1915 and 1917-1941
- Setting: London and rural Sussex, England
- Principal Characters: Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Lytton Strachey, Edward Morgan Forster
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Culture, Memory, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Social life, Writing, Mental illness, Novelists, Feminism, Women’s issues, Criticism, Creative process, Biography
- Locales: London, England, Sussex, England
Form and Content
Although not intended for publication, The Diary of Virginia Woolf has become five volumes edited by Anne Olivier Bell. As the wife of Woolf’s nephew, she had access to many family papers, including the notebooks in which Woolf kept her diary briefly in 1915 and then from August, 1917, until shortly before her death in 1941. Throughout this period, the novelist lived in London and in a succession of homes in rural Sussex. She did not try to write daily; although it was not uncommon for her to make entries every day of a given week, at other times she...
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