A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909
10 best books like A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 (Virginia Woolf): Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, Imaginations, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, Virginia Woolf, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, Twilight in Italy, Complete Poems, Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
Virginia Woolf: A Biography
| Author | Quentin Bell |
| ISBN | 0156935805 |
Virginia Woolf was the fiercely brainy and extremely posh girl I would have been far too shy to even dream of speaking to, had I been around then.
But, in an alternative slipstream of history, it turned out that I was alive at the time, and blow me down, there she was in the Smoke Room at the Old Butcher's...
| Author | Hermione Lee |
| ISBN | 0375701362 |
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...
Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
| Author | Jane Dunn |
| ISBN | 1860498515 |
3.5 stars rounded up
This is a very interesting book about Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf; it isn’t a joint biography. Dunn is looking at their relationship with and influence on each other over the years the rivalry and competitiveness as well as love and support. The relationship was certainly...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811202291 |
Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly searching for a new kind of prose style to express "the...
| Author | Victoria Glendinning |
| ISBN | 0743246535 |
Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into previously untapped sources, to write the first full biography of the extraordinary man who was the "dark star" at the center of the Bloomsbury...
| Author | Nigel Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0670894435 |
Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West -- one of Woolf's closest friends and sometime lover -- threads his personal reminiscences...
| Author | John Phillips |
| ISBN | 0140157964 |
The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West are the one-sided conversation between the two writers. Vita's letters to Violet were destroyed by Violet's husband Denys and the racier ones destroyed by Violet herself. Their affair was much longer than the twenty-two years represented by...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1117935191 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Basil Bunting |
| ISBN | 0811215636 |
A master of song poems which celebrate—and incarnate—the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry, recognized by Pound and Zukofsky as early as the 1930s, and crowned, with the 1966 publication of...
| Author | Julia Briggs |
| ISBN | 0156032295 |
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...
| Author | Kenneth Silverman |
| ISBN | 0060923318 |
Poe. Ugh! Nevermore! Just kidding. Sort of. I’ll always read the great stories over and over again. They are, to my mind, essential parts of American fiction, and foundational material when considering the history of the Weird Tale. But the life of the man, after reading Kenneth Silverman’s biography,...
| Author | Angelica Garnett |
| ISBN | 0712662669 |
Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself, naturally enough, the daughter of Vanessa's husband Clive.
Her childhood homes, Charleston in...
May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, "When there is personal darkness, when there is a pain to be overcome, when we are forced to renew ourselves against all the odds,...
| Author | Alison Light |
| ISBN | 1596915609 |
A revealing and personal new perspective on the Bloomsbury set and the servants who shared their lives.
When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, a woman who could imagine a more open and liberal reality, and an advocate for the female...
Once again Ella Maillart is on her way to Asia, but she is not alone. Christina, (real name Annemarie Schwarzenbach) a friend of Klaus and Erika Mann, accompanies her. She possesses exceptional charm and talent but she is a drug addict. Two courageous women, both highly original, find themselves in...
Journal of Katherine Mansfield
| Author | Katherine Mansfield |
| ISBN | 0880010231 |
1927. Katherine Beauchamp was born in New Zealand and at the age of 13 was sent to England to school at Queen's College. It was here she truly began her writing career. It is difficult to compile a critical evaluation of Katherine Mansfield's work. Her work seems to be of a finer and purer kind than that of...
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
Imagine if we had no biographical detail about Virginia Woolf's life and were thus constrained to go to her work to make all our suppositions about the person she was. As is largely the case with Shakespeare. However, you'd have to say his work hasn't really given us much idea of who he was. Lyndall Gordon...
Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
| Author | Michael Holroyd |
| ISBN | 0393327191 |
I just got this. Years ago I read the original which was published in 1971. It was hugely controversial because it revealed what a polymorphously perverse bunch the Bloomsburies were. I was completely smitten by Carrington who was surely a flower child thirty years too early. Anyhow, time passed and...
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| ISBN | 0300126530 |
A new edition of Leonard Woolf’s satirical second novel, which offers an intriguing group portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbury Group
The Wise Virgins (1914), Leonard Woolf’s second novel, was published two years after the author’s marriage...
