As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the Hogarth Press; her friendships with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield and Vita Sackvill-West; her struggles to write The Waves and ...
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As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the Hogarth Press; her friendships with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield and Vita Sackvill-West; her struggles to write The Waves and The Years ; and the political and personal distresses of her last decade. Compelling, moving and entertaining, Quentin Bell's biography was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. It is a fitting tribute to a remarkable and complex woman, one of the greatest writers of the century.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Second printing. Slightly musty, minor loss from jacket corners, jacket a bit toned, edges foxed, ink name on half-title page. 1972 Hard Cover. xv, 314 pp. A biography of Virginia Woolf written by her nephew, which was originally published in two volumes in 1972. Details are provided on her family and childhood, her earliest writings, the formation of the Bloomsbury group, her marriage, her mental breakdown between 1912 and 1915, and various other personal and professional events until her death.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Biography. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Appears unread. 314 pages. Printing "F". Very little shelfwear. The dust jacket has a small closed tear at the bottom edge of the front panel and is in new mylar.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Later printing. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Owner name and notation on pastedowns, light foxing on page edges, spine slightly cocked, very good in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket.
