Virginia Woolf (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James King
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1882-1941
- Setting: London, Cornwall, and Sussex
- Principal Characters: Virginia Woolf, Julia Duckworth Stephen, Leslie Stephen, Thoby Stephen, George Duckworth, Gerald Duckworth, Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Violet Dickinson, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Authors or writers, Literature, Brothers and sisters, Novelists, Fathers, Women, Career women
- Locales: London, England, Sussex, England, Cornwall, England
“I think I shall prepare to be the Grand Old Woman of English letters,” a young Virginia Stephen commented, and she has achieved that status. Though neglected at mid-century, she has become, according to a 1995 study by the Modern Language Association, the female author most written about and the only woman among the top ten subjects of literary scholarship. Her works have been translated into more than fifty languages; three journals are devoted to her; virtually every surviving scrap of her writing, even the reading notes she took for her book reviews, has been published.
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