# Virginia Woolf

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- Authors: [Hermione Lee](https://www.bookquiver.com/hermione-lee)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1997-10-02

## Description

Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth about her marriage, her feelings for women, her prejudies and obsessions. This is a vivid, close-up portrait, returning to primary sources, and showing Woolf as occupying a distinct, even uneasy position with 'Bloomsbury'. It is a writer's life, illustrating how the concerns of her work arise and develop, and a political life, which establishes Woolf as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist. Incorporating newly discovered sources and illustrated with photos and drawings never used before, this biography is a revelation -informed, intelligent and moving.

## Editions

### Virginia Woolf

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7570-136-8
- Pages: 944
- Published: 1999-10-05
- Language: en_US

### Virginia Woolf

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9973-251-8
- Pages: 944
- Published: 1997-10-02
- Language: en_GB