Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
10 best books like Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life (Julia Briggs): Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Virginia Woolf, The Metaphysical Club, The Waves, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton: A Biography, Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
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...
| Author | Louis Menand |
| ISBN | 0007126905 |
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156949601 |
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from...
| Author | Mark Strand |
| ISBN | 0393321789 |
Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore Form
Explaining beauty is hard work. But distinguished poets Mark Strand and Eavan Boland have produced a clear, super-helpful book that unravels part of the mystery of great poems through an engaging exploration of poetic structure....
| Author | Juliet Barker |
| ISBN | 0879518383 |
Barker's selection of letters reveals the authentic voices of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, as well as their brother, Branwell, and father, Reverend Patrick Bronte. Charlotte was a letter-writer of supreme ability, ranging from facetious notes and intimate gossip to artfully composed pages of literary...
| 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 | Diane Wood Middlebrook |
| ISBN | 0679741828 |
Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to...
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath
| Author | Paul Alexander |
| ISBN | 0306812991 |
I think it was a shit book, only made somewhat interesting by the subject matter itself. I do not wish to go on, as many others have already explained why the author chose not to quote from basically ANY actual material, but what this left the reader with was the most simplistic, vacuous paraphrasing of...
Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156619180 |
Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. In "Reminiscences," the first of five pieces, she focuses on the death of her mother, "the greatest disaster that could happen," and its effect on her father, the demanding Victorian patriarch. Three of the papers were composed...
