The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf
2017
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These letters of Virginia Woolf's—at times witty and irreverent, at times melancholy and introspective—are possibly most revealing for their insights into the complex personality of the novelist herself. "A true letter," she insisted, "should be like a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind." The book contains biographical notes on the main recipients of the letters, together with background information on Virginia Woolf's life and work. It is beautifully illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings, many by members of the Bloomsbury Group, such as Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant.
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Author
Virginia Woolf
Author · 177 books
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
