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Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life

by Lyndall Gordon · 1984

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"[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations."—Carolyn Heilbrun, The New York TimesBook Review This "original, intuitive, and even exciting" (The New Yorker) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art—her childhood, her relationships with her father and sister, her marriage, and her descents into madness.

Subject
biography
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 360 pages

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