Virginia Woolf / Mary Ann Caws.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caws, Mary Ann.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Woolf, Virginia.

Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

England.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

136 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2002.

Summary:

Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws examines the details of Woolf's career and haunted private life. Many of the accompanying illustrations showing Woolf and intimates from the famed Bloomsbury Circle -- which included economist John Maynard Keynes and biographer Lytton Strachey -- are published here for the very first time, along with other rare photos and portraits, providing rare insights into the mind of this enigmatic and influential writer.

Contents:

Making Scenes 1

Early Times: Hyde Park Gate and St Ives 3

Bloomsbury's London 13

Monk's House, Hogarth House and Charleston 27

Auppegard, Roquebrune and Cassis 41

Virginia and Vita 62

Travelling with Leonard and also with Roger 71

Virginia Woolf and Her Mind 79

Virginia Woolf: Reader and Writer 91

Virginia and Bloomsbury 97

Closer: Virginia's Expressing Herself 112

Leaving: the Ouse 120.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1585672645

OCLC:

49846247