Miss Stephen's apprenticeship : how Virginia Stephen became Virginia Woolf / Rosalind Brackenbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brackenbury, Rosalind, author.

Series:

Muse books

Muse books : the Iowa series in creativity & writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Woolf, Virginia.

Physical Description:

ix, 103 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

Summary:

During the years leading up to her marriage with Leonard Woolf in 1912, the year in which she finished The Voyage Out and sent it to be published by her cousin at Duckworth's, the future Virginia Woolf was teaching herself haw to be a writer. While her brothers were sent first to private schools, then to Cambridge to be educated, Virginia Stephen and her sister Vanessa were informally educated at home. With this background, how did she know she was a writer? How did she invent for herself the framework she needed for a writing life? What made Miss Stephen into the author Virginia Woolf? Miss Stephen's Apprenticeship explores these questions and others, and in the process reveals what Virginia Woolf can give to young writers today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Expectations 9

Chapter 2 Reading 17

Chapter 3 Writing 25

Chapter 4 Looking and Listening 37

Chapter 5 The Place 45

Chapter 6 Family and Friends 51

Chapter 7 Routine 59

Chapter 8 "That Dangerous Ground" 65

Chapter 9 The First Novel 71

Chapter 10 "The Only Woman in England" 79.

ISBN:

9781609385514

1609385519

OCLC:

1007087032