Virginia Woolf : An Inner Life

by Briggs, Julia

• ISBN13: 9780156032292
• ISBN10: 0156032295
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-28
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts the writing back at the center of Woolf's life, reads that life through her work, and mines the novels themselves to create a compelling new form of biography. Analyzing Woolf's own commentary on the creative process through her letters, diaries, and essays, Julia Briggs has produced a book that is a convincing, moving portrait of an artist, as well as a profound meditation on the nature of creativity. Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life-a brilliant new insight into a literary genius.

Author Biography

JULIA BRIGGS is a professor of English literature at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. She formerly taught at Oxford University, where she was a fellow and tutor in English at Hertford College. She acted as general editor for the Penguin UK reprint series of Woolf’s novels. She lives in London.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Beginning: The Voyage Out (1915)	1	(28)
Into the Night: Night and Day (1919)	29	(29)
`Our Press Arrived on Tuesday': Monday or Tuesday (1921)	58	(26)
In Search of Jacob: Jacob's Room (1922)	84	(25)
A Woman Connects: The Common Reader (1925)	109	(21)
`What a Lark! What a Plunge!': Mrs Dalloway (1925)	130	(30)
Writing Itself: To the Lighthouse (1927)	160	(27)
`The Secret of Life is . . .': Orlando (1928)	187	(29)
To the Women of the Future: A Room of One's Own (1929)	216	(22)
`Into Deep Waters': The Waves (1931)	238	(31)
The Years of The Years: The Second Common Reader (1932), Flush (1933), The Years (1937)	269	(36)
Attacking Hitler in England: Three Guineas (1938)	305	(33)
Life Writing: Roger Fry (1940), `A Sketch of the Past'	338	(32)
The Last of England: Between the Acts (1941)	370	(25)
Epilogue	395	(8)
Notes	403	(110)
Index	513