The Letters of Virginia Woolf (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Adeline Virginia Stephen
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1888-1941
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Violet Dickinson, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes, Vita Sackville-West, Thoby Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Suicide, Authors or writers, Literature, Friendship, Writing, Mental illness, Novelists, Lesbianism or lesbians, Creative process
- Locales: England
Form and Content
Edited by Vita Sackville-West’s son Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, some 3,800 letters by Virginia Woolf appear in these six volumes. The letters begin with a note written by Virginia Stephen at the age of six; they end with her suicide letters to Vanessa Bell, her sister, and Leonard Woolf, her husband, in 1941 at the age of fifty-nine. In between these dates, Woolf’s letters provide a personal chronicle of her life, her writing, her friends, and her feelings. They also provide insight into the core of the Bloomsbury group, a loosely-knit group of...
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