Virginia Woolf's Women by Vanessa Curtis
A work of original and detailed research this is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational female friendships with the key women in her life. Vanessa Curtis looks both at the effect of these relationships on her emotional life and the inspiration that each woman provided for the female protagonists in her fiction. Women inspired and fascinated Woolf until the day she died, evoking not only her loyalty, love and wit, but also anger, envy and insecurity. The author begins by exposing the lesser-known details of Woolf's Victorian childhood, spent underneath the suffocating wings of the 'angels in the house' who instilled in her a lifelong battle between creativity and convention. The journey continues with a study of the other unique women in Woolf's life: her silent sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; aristocratic novelist Vita Sackville-West and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth. Virginia Woolf's Women takes the reader on an intimate journey through the most important female relationships of Woolf's life, drawing on much previously unpublished archive correspondence and photography, ultimately revealing an honest portrait of Virginia Woolf as writer, daughter, sister, lover and friend.
'If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations to men' confided the writer Virginia Woolf to her diary in 1924
Vanessa Curtis studied music in London before working as a freelance writer and reviewer for newspapers and magazines. In 1998 she co-founded The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. She co-edits the literary Virginia Woolf Bulletin and has published a monograph on Virginia Woolf for the 'Bloomsbury Heritage' series. She lives near Chichester Harbour with her husband and writes full-time.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780709069461 |
| ISBN 10 | 0709069464 |
| Title | Virginia Woolf's Women |
| Author | Vanessa Curtis |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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