Virginia Woolf by Anthony Curtis

Virginia Woolf by Anthony Curtis

Virginia Woolf was clearly one of the great writers of the past century. This book places the author of "A Room of One's Own" firmly on a par with writers such as Simone de Beauvoir and therefore within the study remit of courses on feminist literature.

Anthony Curtis took an English degree at Oxford (first class) and became a literary journalist and books page editor on staff, respectively, of the TLS, Sunday Telegraph and Financial Times. He reviewed the volumes of Virginia Woolf's diaries, letters and essays, when they were first published, as well as the biographical accounts of her history of mental illness and her private life. Reading these biographies and her journals, he became interested in Kitty Maxse, the model for Mrs Dalloway, about whom little seemed to be known. He stumbled across Kitty's sister's (Margaret Lushington's) diaries and edited them for publication. 'Virginia Woolf was clearly one of the great writers of the past century, but in what does her greatness consist?' muses Anthony Curtis. 'This book is an attempt to answer that question.'

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ISBN 13	9781904950233
ISBN 10	190495023X
Title	Virginia Woolf
Author	Anthony Curtis
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Haus Publishing
Year published	2006-06-01
Number of pages	250
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