Best Virginia Woolf Biography - April 2024

Flush: A Biography

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning’s life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.

• ASIN: 0156319527
• ASIN: 0156319527
• ISBN: 0156319527
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Orlando: A Biography

• ASIN: 015670160X
• ASIN: 015670160X
• ISBN: 015670160X
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Orlando (Annotated): A Biography

Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant creation.Annotated and with an introduction by Maria DiBattista

• ASIN: 0156031515
• ASIN: 0156031515
• ISBN: 0156031515
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Virginia Woolf

"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh."  --The Philadelphia Inquirer            While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from a multitude of perspectives, producing a richly layered portrait of the writer and the woman that leaves all of her complexities and con... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375701362
• ASIN: 0375701362
• ISBN: 0375701362
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4: 1931-35

The penultimate volume of Woolf's diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. "A book of extraordinary vitality, wit, and beauty" (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.

• ASIN: 0156260395
• ASIN: 0156260395
• ISBN: 0156260395
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Virginia Woolf

An ideal introduction to the life and work of Virginia Woolf by an award-winning author: the story of a life lived with intensity from moment to moment and shaped into the lasting patterns of art. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still to prove. She felt herself to be at a crossroads: “I shall be miserable, or happy; a wordy sentimental creature, or a writer of such English as shall one day burn the pages.” Today her prose is still blazing; perhaps it burns brighter than ever. This is the story of how a determined young wom... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0500515921
• ASIN: 0500515921
• ISBN: 0500515921
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson

Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this work is not Virginia Woolf, the person who wrote the novels, criticism, letters, and famous diary, but a different being altogether, someone or something Maria DiBattista identifies as "the figment of the author." This is the Virginia Woolf who lives intermittently in the pages of her writings and i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691138125
• ASIN: 0691138125
• ISBN: 0691138125
• Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

The first full-scale biography of the eminent British writer, written by her nephew. Index; photographs.

• ASIN: 0156935805
• ASIN: 0156935805
• ISBN: 0156935805
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Harvest

Flush (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback))

'I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life.' Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel after finishing The Waves, tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent with the writer Mary Mitford, through his sheltered existence with Elizabeth Barrett in her sick room, and later travels in Florence. But Flush is much more than a playful writer's holiday. As we... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0199539294
• ASIN: 0199539294
• ISBN: 9780199539291
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA

The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing

In this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf’s own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will delight fans, students, and teachers alike—and at last give Woolf a classroom of her own. Imagine what it might be like if Virginia Woolf were teaching a writers’ workshop. What would she say? What elements of her own experience would writers today find valuable? Now one need only to look within these pages ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553384929
• ASIN: 0553384929
• ISBN: 0553384929
• Brand: Brand: Bantam
• Manufacturer: Bantam

Virginia Woolf's Nose

What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after death? How do we choose what gets left out? This intriguing and witty collection of essays by an internationally acclaimed biographer looks at how biography deals with myths and legends, what goes missing and what can't be proved in the story of a life. Virginia Woolf's Nose presents a variety of case-studies, in which literary biographers are faced with gaps and absences, unprovable stories and amb... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691130442
• ASIN: 0691130442
• ISBN: 0691130442
• Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most.“Transcendent.”—The Washington Post • “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.” —The Wall Street Journal Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death—a calamity that claimed her favorite person—she returned to that beloved nov... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524760625
• ASIN: 1524760625
• ISBN: 1524760625
• Manufacturer: Crown

Moments of Being

Published years after her death, Moments of Being is Virginia Woolf’s only autobiographical writing, considered by many to be her most important book.In “Reminiscences,” the first of five pieces included in Moments of Being, Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, “the greatest disaster that could happen,” and its effect on her father, a demanding Victorian patriarch who played a crucial role in her development as an individual and a writer. Three of the essays she wrote for the purpose of reading at the Memoir Club, a postwar regrouping of Bloomsbury, and “A Sketch of the Past�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0156619180
• UPC: 971488255704
• ASIN: 0156619180
• ISBN: 0156619180
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Virginia Woolf (Penguin Lives)

An intimate, surprising portrait of the great American writer peels back the layers of Woolf's life to reveal a writer passionately interested in women's issues, human rights, the nature of war, and other important issues. 25,000 first printing.

• ASIN: 0670894435
• ASIN: 0670894435
• ISBN: 0670894435
• Brand: Brand: Viking Adult
• Manufacturer: Viking Adult

Night and Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women—women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, Margaret, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her own father's life into a biography—impinge on hers with unex... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140185682
• ASIN: 0140185682
• ISBN: 9780140185683
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Virginia Woolf : A Biography

The author of such landmark works as "Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, " and "A Room of One's Own" and a woman and an artist far ahead of the time in which she lived and

• UPC: 25686830
• Rating: 4.333

All the Lives We Ever Lived : Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives--and see clearly the people we love most. Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia

• UPC: 444295488
• Rating: 4.0

The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1 : 1915-1919

"Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf.... [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her

• UPC: 511801
• Rating: 5.0

A Secret Sisterhood : The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

A fascinating, inspirational look at the relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators and

• UPC: 55971022
• Rating: 3.667

Shaggy Muses : The Dogs who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë

Originally published in 2007 by Ballantine

• UPC: 15159298
• Rating: 4.2

Virginia Woolf

An ideal introduction to the life and work of Virginia Woolf by an award-winning author: the story of a life lived with intensity from moment to moment and shaped into the lasting patterns of

• UPC: 16467389
• Rating: 4.5

The Diary Of Virginia Woolf, Volume 3 : 1925-1930

An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. "Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose...make this a most valuable and pleasurable book" (Publishers Weekly). "Volume three

• UPC: 27549562
• Rating: 5.0

The Diary Of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2 : 1920-1924

The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one

• UPC: 27821451
• Rating: 4.5

The Diary Of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4 : 1931-1935

The penultimate volume of Woolf's diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. "A book of extraordinary vitality,

• UPC: 27821450
• Rating: 5.0

Virginia Woolf

Traces the life of the British novelist and discusses her major

• UPC: 1900539
• Rating: 5.0