The Literary Essays of Virginia Woolf (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Adeline Virginia Stephen
- First Published: 1925
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: History, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Novelists, England or English people, Women’s issues, Eighteenth century, Women, Biography
Critical Evaluation:
Of Virginia Woolf’s five books of non-fiction published in her lifetime two are extended essays springing from feminist topics, A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN and THREE GUINEAS, and another, FLUSH, the biography of Elizabeth Barrett’s spaniel. The remaining two volumes are collections of her longer reviews and literary essays, THE COMMON READER and THE SECOND COMMON READER. They share the occasional acerbity and extended argument of the two long essays mentioned above and the grace and light comedy of the spaniel’s life....
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